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Poverty of the Imagination

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Patrick Iber In the last decade or so, people around the world have been having a global debate about income and wealth inequality. Seventy years ago, there was a similar conversation that was focused on poverty. The issues of poverty and inequality are obviously related but not identical. (The economist Branko Milanovic tells a story …

The Alliance for Progress, A Wisconsin Perspective

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Alec Armon In 1965, a representative from Wisconsin stood before residents of La Ligua, a town in Central Chile, to inaugurate a neighborhood that would bear the U.S. state’s name after it was rebuilt in the wake of an earthquake. According to the speaker, the newly constructed homes at Villa Wisconsin, as it was called, …