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Archive for category: How Expensive It Is To Be Poor

police In Panama

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – The Police Are The Problem, Not The Solution

August 1, 2012/0 Comments/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor, Latin America /by Adam Pervez

Another example of how expensive it is to be poor when it comes to the police and safety
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Traffic Police

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – Public Spending

June 21, 2012/0 Comments/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor, Peru /by Adam Pervez

Some examples of self-defeating public spending in the developing world involving transportation
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Claro

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – How Many Cell Phones Do You Have?

June 14, 2012/0 Comments/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor, Peru /by Adam Pervez

How poverty sometimes forces people in Peru to have two cell phones for two different operators
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The Store And Vendor

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Change For A 50?

May 23, 2012/0 Comments/in Happy Nomad Tour, How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

The complicated art of buying things in developing countries. You better have correct change!
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Books For Sale In Peru

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – Ignorance Is Agony, Not Bliss

May 9, 2012/6 Comments/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor, Peru /by Adam Pervez

A story in Peru of a woman who can’t spell and lives in shame, though I see nothing but awesomeness in her. Ignorance is agony, not bliss.
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"The New Opportunity At The Base Of The Pyramid"

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Books

March 24, 2012/1 Comment/in Colombia, How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

The sad story of prohibitively expensive books in many parts of the world – and its propagation of the poverty cycle
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Police In Panama

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Security

January 28, 2012/0 Comments/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

A look at how a lack of security, sometimes brought on by poverty, contributes to the poverty cycle and general lack of well-being
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5 Gallon Bottle Of Water

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Water

December 24, 2011/1 Comment/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

Water – vital for human life – infinitely more expensive in the developing world
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Grazing Cow And Street Garbage In Granada, Nicaragua

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – The World Is My Garbage Can

November 21, 2011/4 Comments/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

How the treatment of garbage contributes to the poverty cycle in the developing world
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Me With The Class

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Education

November 7, 2011/6 Comments/in El Salvador, How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

Education can be an equalizer and a way to climb out of poverty. Here is a school in rural El Salvador quite far removed from this ideal.
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mini packets of shampoo

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Buying Power

October 25, 2011/11 Comments/in Honduras, How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

A glimpse into how different life is when you have no buying power – and how that contributes to the difficulty of breaking the poverty cycle.
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Time and Infrastructure

October 19, 2011/5 Comments/in How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

A series of articles showing how expensive it is to be poor and why it’s hard to break the cycle. In this article, examples of time and infrastructure.
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