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Poverty as Deprivation

Does Corruption Create Poverty?

Posted by on Jan 14, 2012

Does Corruption Create Poverty? By Walden Bello* The issue of corruption is a very resonant one in developing countries.  In the Philippines, for instance, the slogan of the...

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Poverty as Disempowerment

Reclaiming Revolution

Posted by on Jan 15, 2012

Reclaiming Revolution By Focus on the Global South*, 26 July 2005 As the clamor for another president’s ouster grows, one wonders why the one place where Filipino protesters...

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Poverty as Disposession

APECO’s Story: Two Visions of Development Contend in Land Grab Case

Posted by on May 22, 2013

By Jerik Cruz Down at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains, sheltered from the Pacific ocean by the San Idelfonso peninsula, the first infrastructures of the Aurora Pacific...

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Poverty as Domination

Reclaiming Revolution

Posted by on Jan 15, 2012

Reclaiming Revolution By Focus on the Global South*, 26 July 2005 As the clamor for another president’s ouster grows, one wonders why the one place where Filipino protesters...

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