Sushant’s sister Shweta: Really need to heal from this pain
September 16, 2020 10:23:01 pm
Shweta Singh Kirti, sister of the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, has decided to take a 10-day leave from going online for “intense meditation and prayer”. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Shweta shared that even three months after Sushant’s demise, she has not recovered.
In her post, Shweta wrote, “How much do you ever try to stay strong, but at times this strong pain dominates that the brothers are no longer really.” Will never touch her or see her laughing or hearing her cracked jokes … I wonder how long it will take to fully recover. Have decided to stay 10 days away from being online and drown in intense meditation and prayers. Really need to heal from this pain. “
Sushant Singh Rajput died on 14 June at his Mumbai residence. Her elder sister Shweta Singh Kirti has been at the forefront of the family fight in the case of Sushant’s death. She is using social media to thank fans and friends for standing by her family in times of grief.
Shweta recently thanked fans across the world who became part of the #Plants4SRR campaign and helped fulfill the late Bollywood actor’s dream of planting 1000 trees in his lifetime.
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Obama's travel plans to East Asia prevented him from speaking at the annual meeting of the National Council of Churches November 9-11 in New Orleans, so the meeting of Christian leaders was arranged for All Saints Day.
Leaders from the NCC and member communions thanked the president for the passage of health-care reform. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of the NCC, said that the church leaders were not presenting him with a list of their needs as much as asking what they could do for him.
Although Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, asked that the Obama administration "end the travel ban and restrictions on religious work in Cuba," she put that request into the context of gratitude for the president's work "on behalf of so many people on the margins," according to Episcopal News Service.
Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, said some participants commended Obama's efforts to broker peace between Israelis and Palestinians while emphasizing the need to preserve Jerusalem as a shared city for all and to protect the right of Christians in the region, reported ELCA News Service. "I spoke about the need to create jobs that will lift people out of poverty," including jobs that are environmentally friendly, Hanson added.
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Dizziness is a feeling of an imaginary movement or rotation of a body in space or an incorrect definition of one's body in the surrounding space. Patients describe the dizziness in completely different ways: swimming or rocking the head, impaired coordination, rotation inside the head, weakness in the legs, instability, unsteadiness in walking, etc. Vertigo is a proven symptom of more than eighty somatic and neurological diseases. In addition, this condition can be observed in cardiovascular diseases, blood diseases, mental illnesses and pathologies of the ear and eye. Vertigo is an extremely unpleasant subjective symptom that significantly reduces the quality of life of a person
Dizziness - Causes
The function of maintaining equilibrium directly depends on the surface-sensory, proprioceptive, vestibular and visual information and is provided by a very complex unique mechanism called the vestibular apparatus. All incoming sensory information is processed in the central nervous system and modeled by the activity of the extrapyramidal system, the reticular formation, the cerebellum, and the cerebral cortex. Simultaneously, the vestibular receptors control the position of the head, determine the change in the force of gravity, change the angular and linear acceleration, and translate all this accumulated information into brain-processing electrical impulses.
The vestibular apparatus is located in the pyramid (in the stony part) of the temporal bone and in its structure looks like consisting of three cavities (anterior bone snail, central cavity with spherical and elliptical sac, vestibular posterior chamber, three semicircular bone canals) bone labyrinth. Blood vestibular apparatus is supplied with branches of basilar and anterior cerebral arteries, internal auditory artery. In the absence of any pathologies, vestibular activity occurs at a subconscious level, with lightning recognition of any changes in patterns of sensory influences. Not one person does not think about keeping a balance for running and walking, about the position of the eyes when jumping, bending and moving the head. All this for him instantly makes the vestibular apparatus. In the event of any dysfunction of modulation, generation or integration in this complex mechanism, there is an imbalance, dizziness, and perhaps nausea and even vomiting.
In its current, dizziness can be a transient and insignificant, or a persistent growing symptom of a person's serious pathological changes or disorders
Causes of dizziness are the damaged connections with the vestibular nuclei with the cerebellum, in the trunk, with the medial longitudinal fascicle, the cortex of the brain, the muscles of the body and neck, the nuclei of the eye muscles, and pathological changes in the vestibular part of the inner ear.
Allocate non-systemic and systemic (true) dizziness
– ощущение неустойчивости и чувство нестабильности окружающего пространства. Inconsistent dizziness is a sense of instability and a sense of instability in the surrounding space. This type of dizziness occurs in cerebellar and emotional disorders, damage to the visual analyzer, with pre-occlusive conditions
– иллюзия движения окружающих предметов или непосредственно самого тела человека в окружающем пространстве. Systemic (true) dizziness is an illusion of movement of surrounding objects or directly of the human body itself in the surrounding space. Systemic dizziness is accompanied by anxiety, increased sweating, blanching of the skin, nausea and vomiting. The true form is associated with the stimulation of certain regions of the vestibular analyzers, and is subdivided depending on the degree of damage to the central and peripheral vertigo (dizziness). The most common reasons for the development of true dizziness: various intoxications, degenerative and inflammatory processes of the organs of balance and hearing; disturbed blood supply to the inner ear, brain.
In the world neurological practice most often dizziness occurs with various emotional disorders, pathologies of the cervical spine and cerebrovascular diseases
. Emotional disorders . , различные невротические расстройства, простое переутомление и недомогание могут имитировать практически любую симптоматику болезней тела. Depression , various neurotic disorders, mild overwork and malaise can mimic virtually any symptomatology of the body's disease. In some cases, the only symptom is dizziness, noise / ringing in the ear, noise in the head. With these diseases, dizziness is accompanied by a pronounced fatigue, a continuous fixation of attention on your poor health, sleep and appetite disorders, increased anxiety combined with tearfulness and bad mood
. Pathologies of the cervical spine . On the shortage of blood supply, the vestibular system reacts quite sharply. Vestibular centers of the brain and the inner ear feed on blood from the system of vertebral arteries that run through narrow canals of the cervical spine. , травма или нестабильность шейных позвонков зачастую приводят к сдавливанию этих артерий, что ведет к дефициту кровотока и соответственно головокружению. Osteochondrosis , trauma or instability of the cervical vertebra often leads to squeezing of these arteries, which leads to a shortage of blood flow and, accordingly, dizziness. The main symptomatology for these diseases: shakiness and dizziness, which are intensified when the head tilts and turns; Reduced vision in the dark, ripples and / or "flies" in the eyes; discomfort and tension in the temples, lower back and neck; irritability and fatigue; accompanied by nausea, and sometimes vomiting, increased blood pressure
. Vascular lesions of the brain . With these pathologies, dizziness may occur as a consequence of atherosclerotic lesions of the arteries, or due to hypertensive disease. With a prolonged increase in arterial pressure, the small arteries of the brain are damaged, they become inelastic and narrow. As a result of such changes, the inflow to the brain of a person enriched with oxygen (arterial) blood decreases, leading to dizziness, noise / ringing in the ears and head. характеризуется отложением на внутренних стенках артерий выпуклостей – бляшек, которые постепенно перекрывают ток крови. Atherosclerosis is characterized by the deposition on the inner walls of the arteries of bulges - plaques, which gradually block the flow of blood. The most dangerous is the formation of such plaques in the arteries of the brain. In the case of cerebral circulation, dizziness is sometimes the first and only complaint
Dizziness occurs with the following diseases and processes:
, сифилис височной кости - Infectious diseases , syphilis of the temporal bone
- Diseases of the ear: otitis (chronic or acute inflammation of the middle ear), cholesteatoma, otosclerosis, neurinoma of the auditory nerve and the like
- Cerebrovascular diseases
- Craniocerebral trauma, trauma of the temporal bone
- Diseases of the cerebellum: a tumor, degeneration
- Diseases of the nervous system: Parkinson's disease, syringomyelia, multiple sclerosis
- Diseases of the cervical spine, Paget's disease
- Various intoxications: drugs, mercury, drugs, industrial solvents, alcohol
, анемии, злокачественные опухоли , метаболические нарушения, язвенная болезнь - Somatic diseases: atherosclerosis, hypertension, stroke, rheumatism, ischemic heart disease , anemia, malignant tumors , metabolic disorders, peptic ulcer disease
- Mental diseases
Diagnosis of dizziness
Since the list of disease states and disorders with vertigo is truly huge, to determine the exact cause of vestibular disorders, a comprehensive examination is required. First of all, the patient is shown the consultation of a neurologist and an otolaryngologist; if necessary, a therapist, a cardiologist, a vascular surgeon, an infectious disease specialist, and an oculist. The neurologist, in addition to an external examination for specific neurological symptoms, often assigns X-ray of the temporal bone, cervical spine, dopplerography of the main vessels, CT and MRI. The otolaryngologist examines directly the auditory and vestibular apparatus. Laboratory diagnosis is purely individual and is assigned on the basis of detected somatic diseases. Vertigo is a concomitant symptom of a very large number of diseases, so very often even after comprehensive examinations, its cause remains unclarified
Vertigo - treatment
Treatment of dizziness primarily depends on the underlying cause of the disease, and only after its diagnosis is the appropriate choice of treatment strategy. In case of occurrence of a giddiness on a background of a proceeding somatic disease, it is necessary to treat it first of all. Antihistamines (Diprazin, Cinnarizine), Phenobarbital, Metherazine, Torekan, Diazepines, Belloid, vasodilators (nicotinic acid, Tionikol) and diuretics are prescribed. In the presence of concomitant vertigo vomiting, injectively appoint Elenium or Seduxen. In the case of prolonged severe dizziness, the administration of neuroleptics (haloperidol) is indicated. To improve blood circulation, the reception of such vascular drugs as: Memoplant, Cavinton, Sermion
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When companies set up their own legal entity abroad, setup costs average around $15,000 to $20,000, plus $40,000 per year to maintain. Entities also take an average of three to four months to get set up, delaying the start of operations. Moreover, foreign entities often create a disproportionate time-suck for legal, HR, and finance teams; can be difficult and costly to dissolve; and produce additional political, legal, and compliance risks.
Independent contractors are a much cheaper option; however, treating them like an employee is illegal in nearly every country and comes with serious risks. Based on my research, “employee misclassification” can lead to costly legal battles, fines, adverse publicity, a disruption in operations, and court-ordered back payments of wages, taxes, and pension contributions, often with interest. These risks vary significantly from country to country, but surprisingly few employers understand what the risks are and where they are the highest.
The co-employment model eliminates independent contractor risk and is cheaper, more flexible, and easier to manage than a legal entity. Some international PEOs offer additional services like talent acquisition, immigration, and consulting to help clients start operating in places where they have no existing expertise. It’s not uncommon for companies to start foreign operations within 48 hours of signing a contract with their international PEO.
Despite the many benefits, international PEOs are not a silver bullet for all companies expanding outside their domicile. Its more cost-effective for companies to establish their own legal entity once around 15 or more employees operate in a single country, making co-employment fiscally imprudent for larger companies that plan to operate well into the future in foreign locales.
But international PEOs offer an ideal solution for small and medium-sized firms expanding abroad, companies in search for a bridge solution to a permanent establishment (often firms managing mergers and acquisitions), and those testing new markets.
At present, the average client tends to mirror that of the PEO industry: rapidly growing, successful startups. HR managers and executives stumble across this service during frantic google searches for expansion options, creating huge inbound leads for the nascent industry.
Total PEO industry numbers are difficult to find, but executives at one leading firm say there could be a dozen other players in the U.S. and they still wouldn’t get in each other’s way competing for clients. Another estimates the worldwide market potential at $130 billion.
Arguably the two firms with the largest market cap, Velocity Global and Globalization Partners, have each twice-made Inc. 5000’s list of America’s fastest growing private businesses. Velocity Global made it in both 2018 and 2019, initially ranking as America’s fourth fastest growing company, boasting 3,982 percent revenue growth between 2015 and 2018, followed by a 185th ranking from 2016 to 2019 with 2,112 percent topline growth. Globalization Partners made the list in 2016 and 2017, ranking as the sixth and 33rd fastest growing private company in the U.S. with 16,197 percent and 8,187 percent revenue increases over their three-year respective windows.
Eventually, the market will consolidate as clear leaders emerge and acquire competitors. As the industry matures, so will the type of clients that rely on it. Eventually, it will be commonplace for established firms to depend on co-employment during the new market testing phase that requires an on-the-ground presence, and as a bridge solution as they work toward a permanent presence abroad.
Until then, international PEOs like Velocity Global and Globalization Partners will continue to make global expansion a realistic option rather than a long-term goal for an increasing number of small and medium-sized companies.
Quin is a second-year student in the MGM program, and serves as the president of Campus Ambassadors. Quin works for Velocity Global as a graduate consulting intern.


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I know that Griff usually has a corner on the fluff department, but I have two college-age daughters and occasionally I have to throw them a sop. They called my attention to the fact that local boy Justin Plank, bass player for Gospel Gossip, was named by VitaMN as “Male Hotness” winner. (If you haven’t heard Gospel Gossip, you may have seen Justin hanging out on on his motorcycle in front of Goodbye Blue Monday.)
This has been a public service announcement brought to you by the Committee for the Beautification of Northfield, a self-delegated, un-official subcommittee of the Streetscape Task Force.
Mark Witt (AKA ‘Mooch’) stopped by my morning office at GBM a couple months ago with a CD in hand. (Mark is one-half of the Witt Bros. Service where I’ve had my cars repaired since I moved to Northfield in 1974.)
The CD is called Venture and it’s written, produced and sung by his sister, Lori Witt (AKA Lori Macrae). I got them to pose for a photo at the station on one of the first sunny days of spring.
Other Northfielders who had a hand in the CD:
Mark Witt: Vocals, assistant producer
Craig Wasner: Music arranger, keyboard, vocals, guitar
Tom Teorey: Harmonica, guitar
Logan Macrae: Music enthusiast
Corey Pulju: Photography, CD design (photo above of Lori in the car was taken by Corey)
Mark’s vocals are featured in one of the songs, Middle Age. Here’s a clip of the last 45 seconds of the song:
Update 06/10: Lori has a page on TuneCore which has a link to iTunes where the entire album can be purchased for $7.92 or individual songs for $.99. I’ve added a CD image above that’s linked to that page, too.
Local musicians Meredith Fierke, Steve and Dylan Mckinstry, and photographer Dan Iverson are arriving in Austin, Texas today to participate in the South by Southwest music and film festival. Fierke is performing at the Touche bar on Saturday and will play “Train’s Song,” a song inspired by the trains traveling through Northfield, Minn. Below are video interviews with Fierke and Iverson shot in Fierke’s home on Monday.


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One thing that bothered me was how close to an inch of space was wasted trying to make a 1/4 20 thread fit into a 10-24 thread actuator. A coupler was required but I wanted to find something better.
By accident, I think I did!
I found a 10-24 thread grommet that had potential. I just had to add some holes for a 4-40 screw to pass thru.
The grommet is too small to reach the existing mounting holes, so I used a small, square-shaped piece of aluminum that would. Then it was creating two countersunk holes for the mounting to the claw, then two threaded holes for the grommet to be secured to. (No room for a lock nut where those screws go in)
As you can see, with the old coupler and mounting piece in the foreground. In an area that already has tight clearances, this helps a lot.
The next obstacle is the attachment of the linear actuator to the servo.
Ideally, you want the servo horn to be screwed into the servo. However, with the attachment pictured below, that's hard to do...
|The L16 Linear Actuator includes mounting hardware, a U-shaped bracket and 10-32 threaded screws and lock nuts. I drilled a hole large enough for the bolt to go through the servo horn.|
Now I can just use electrical tape on the bottom part for now and then the arm slides onto the servo fine. However, anticipating Murphy's Law, I would like to find something better. For now it will suffice.
I was going to work on this some tonight but decided to address the issue with the door not opening all the way properly. This requires removing the GOOP adhesive since it dried crooked (clamp slipped off). As a result, the door is perfect at the bottom but as you go up, the hinge is falling into the body. I have some toluene solvent, which will dissolve the GOOP adhesive.
The one good thing about all this time in the basement has been my dedicated assistant, "Mokey". Anytime I get up, he steals my chair. When I am staring out in space, trying to find a solution to something, he's rubbing around my legs, desiring some of that attention. Gotta love a great wingman!

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Web Series: You will stand up by watching suspense top 6 movies and web series!
Movies on Ott: The growing craze of OTT is shocking. Films, movies, now by releasing stories in episodes, it has been prepared for OTT by making a lot of fun by making it very fun. If you also watch Binj on OTT and are fond of suspense, thriller and suspense weseries, then watch these weekends and web series this weekend.
Katputli: Akshay Kumar’s film Katputli is full of suspense and thrill. The film can be seen on the OTTPLATFOM Disney Plus Hotstar.
Kantara: The story of Kantaara, a village in Karnataka, rocked the box office. This film had shown stars to people during the day by earning 400 crores. Currently, you can watch this film on Netflix.
Tumbar: Tumbar can be seen on Amazon Prime Video (Amazon Prime Video). This is also a film based on a real story.
Jabanj Hindustan: This story is of an IPS officer who always chooses her duty in front of her duty and family. The 8 episodes of this series are present on the OTT platform G5 (ZEE 5) platform.
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4 Minute Crypto – Is Bitcoin Is Becoming More Valuable to Iranians?
The overall value of Bitcoin is already up by around fifteen percent this year, but since President Trump recently downplayed the situation in Iran, saying that the Middle Eastern power is ready to stand down, Bitcoin’s price slid back down around eighty-one hundred dollars.
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DISCLAIMER: This article should not be taken as is, and is not intended to provide, investment advice.


Vietnamese representative finishes among Top 20 at Miss Earth 2022
The 21-year-old Khmer girl hailing from Tra Vinh province stands at 1.78 metres tall, weighs 50kg, and has body measurement of 74-61-88. She first rose to prominence during the grand finale of Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2022 when she won the second runner-up title.
Mina Sue Choi, 23, of the Republic of Korea was ultimately the grand winner of the 22nd global pageant.
Other awards, including Miss Earth Fire, Miss Earth Water, and Miss Earth Air, went to the beauties from Colombia, Palestine, and Australia, respectively.
Miss Earth was originally launched by the Philippines Carousel Production Company in 2001 to promote environmentally-friendly activities.
In 2018 Nguyen Phuong Khanh was crowned Miss Earth, the highest prize won by a Vietnamese representative in the pageant’s history.
Vietnam will officially host Miss Earth 2023. The world’s fourth largest beauty contest is scheduled to get underway in the central coastal city of Nha Trang with the participation of nearly 100 contestants from across the globe.


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Ada Pulls Away Late to Defeat Hardin Northern
Written by WKTN Staff on February 22, 2019
A late surge was enough to push the Ada Bulldogs past Hardin Northern 60 to 48 in boys basketball play Thursday at Hardin Northern.
The Bulldogs (5-16) led 50-47 midway through the fourth quarter but outscored the Polar Bears 10-1 down the stretch to notch the win.
Phillip Coulson led the Bulldogs with 22 points and also grabbed five rebounds.
Connor Frazier finished with 18 points and 15 rebounds for the winners while Zac Swaney and Brandon Hull each scored eight points.
Hardin Northern (7-15) got 14 points from Owen Wetherill and another 12 from Hunter Jolliff.
Nevin Robson and Lance Good added nine points each for the Polar Bears.


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Condorman is the name and titular superhero of the tokusatsu TV series Seigi no Shinboru Condorman (正義のシンボル コンドールマン Symbol of justice Kondoruman) created by Kōhan Kawauchi.
The World Is Under attack from New York based criminal group the monsters, led by the mysterious king Monster.
A new superhero is born named Condorman, to fight off the evils of greed, dirt, pollution, and other natural threats to the environment.


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In this conversation, I sat down and had a lighter and wide-ranging discussion as we wind down the 2018 calendar year. Whether talking about the holidays, when to put up and and take down decorations, the Serenity Prayer and more, we had a fantastic and fun 30 minute radio interview.
I am a recurring guest the first Saturday of each month on Waking Up with Alan. We call it a Fitness First Saturday. It’s heard on WBHF AM 1450 and FM 100.3. The station also streams online using the TuneIn Radio app.
You can learn more about me and my offerings by visiting SJDHealthandFitness.com or GeorgiaPersonalTrainer.com. She also has a presence on Facebook and Twitter under the same name.


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Wonderful place to stay when visiting Case Western or any other University Circle attraction. On one stay, had a room in the original mansion, which was very cool! Rooms in the addition are fairly typical hotel rooms. All very nice. Parking is somewhat limited. Amazing atmosphere and beautiful grounds. Breakfast was average, nothing special.
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CGG has announced the start of work on Espirito Santo IV, a large BroadSeis™ 3D multi-client survey in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil.
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Second Occupy National Conference – Occupy will win; next conference 21-23 January 2012 in Sheffield
Members of Occupy London met Occupiers from around the UK in Edinburgh at the second National Occupy Conference, 16-18 December. The event was unanimously described as “inspiring” and “a total success”. Occupy London members returned ebullient, with a spring in their step.
Occupiers from established camps in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, London (OccupyLSX at St Paul’s Churchyard and Bank of Ideas), Newcastle, Norwich and Sheffield were in attendance.
Occupy London supporter Em Weirdigan said: “The second National Occupy Conference was about sharing resources, skills and experience to grow stronger as a movement. Camp logistics, transparency, financial responsibility, political campaigning, media strategies and social networking were all discussed. We are making a difference and Occupy will win – benefiting all in society.”
With a view to improving co-ordination between UK occupations, it was agreed that work would begin on the compilation of an Occupiers’ Handbook, the founding of a new cross-site Women’s Group and the design of a new national website.
A possible Statement of Autonomy for Occupy – to guard against co-option and increase accountability – was suggested. Representatives will take these ideas back to the General Assemblies of their camps for further debate prior to seeking consensus. Similarly, occupiers shared experience and ideas on making occupations safer and more inviting for all, and a statement on “Inclusivity, safer spaces, anti-sexism and anti-racism” was taken back to the camps for General Assemblies to consider.
The Conference reported on growing support for Occupy in the UK and beyond. Solidarity with fellow Occupiers around the world was expressed, especially those experiencing oppression. The Conference resolved to ramp up the campaign for a world that is no longer designed for the benefit of the one per cent.
The following statement was agreed by all present at the conference: “We seek a more egalitarian and fair society, an open and peaceful environment for discussion and inclusiveness for people of all backgrounds. We seek a twenty-first century Enlightenment.”
The third National Conference of UK Occupiers will be held 21-23 January 2012 at Occupy Sheffield.


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- Trump's former pollster has found five main factions in the present day GOP.
- "We found that there are clear and distinct 'tribes' of Trump supporters within the GOP," he said.
- They include "Trump Boosters," "Die-hard Trumpers," and a "Never Trump" minority.
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As more Republicans declare their candidacy for upcoming Congressional primaries, campaigns are beginning to navigate the landscape of the post-Trump GOP.
Even though the former president oversaw historically bad losses for his party in just four years, the Republican Party is much more in his image now than it was when he first ran for president, Trump's former pollster found in a new survey.
Fabrizio and Lee, a polling firm that did work for Trump in the 2020 campaign, quizzed 1,264 Republicans in a nationwide survey that found "clear and distinct 'tribes' of Trump supporters within the G.O.P. and, not surprisingly, a small Never Trump group."
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The "Die-hard Trumpers" made up 27%, with their defining feature being an unflinching loyalty to Trump without believing in or supporting QAnon conspiracy theories.
Read more: How the GOP learned to love QAnon
"Trump boosters" composed 28% of the cohort, indicating they liked Trump's performance as president, but would prefer he not run again in 2024 and generally consider themselves more loyal to the GOP than Trump himself.
The "Never Trump" faction only made up for 15% of those polled, while the "Post-Trump GOP" was not much bigger at 20% and only differentiated itself as wanting someone other than Trump to be the next nominee while still liking the former president.
"Infowars" GOP was the smallest at 10%, but showed solidarity in their belief in QAnon.
While just 13% of the audience overal said they believe in those conspiracy theories, 69% of the Infowars tribe said they do, hence the moniker in homage to the extremist website owned by Alex Jones.


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Saturday, December 13, 2014
Poverty in Today’s World and our Responsibilities in Addressing It
By Bakampa Brian Baryaguma
[Dip. Law (First Class)–LDC; PG Cert. Oil & Gas–Mak; LLB (Hons)–Mak; GC Candidate–GCA]
Globalization has been instrumental in improving people’s lives worldwide through boosting production and revenue earnings in form of profits, taxes and wages; increasing living standards and life expectancy; easy access to knowledge, thus reducing isolation; easier access to global networks for instance, in finance and marketing; enabling transfer of required technology among trading blocks; etc. The world is a much better place today, than ever before in human history.
However, in spite of this impressive trend, the world still faces a profound challenge: dire poverty – a symbol of shame, gravely haunting human conscience and pride – posing a global development paradox. In the so-called ‘age of plenty’; in a world said to be, ‘... for the most part too rich for it to be a big part of the story of the persistence of poverty,’ there are still far too many poor people.
Clearly, we cannot sit comfortably or sleep easily knowing that global poverty will soon be in the past; and development a given. Poverty imposes upon us huge responsibilities to address it as one human community.
2. The Current State of Poverty in the World
Poverty literally means a ‘state of being poor;’ and to be poor means ‘having little money; not having and not able to get the necessaries of life.’ Poverty largely denotes material deprivation, but it has human rights connotations too: it is characterized by a denial of human rights, including the right to food, such that poverty and hunger have come to be synonymous with each other. Thus, in some quarters, ‘A “poor” person was essentially defined as someone without enough to eat.’ In essence, prosperity without freedom is a form of poverty itself.
There are no hard and fast rules in measuring poverty, but the commonest standard is the global poverty line of one United States dollar a day. Going by this standard, it appears that poverty has reduced considerably in many parts of the world, in the last two to three decades; because while about half of the population in the developing world lived below USD 1$ a day in the early 1980s, this had folded to less than a quarter – 22% – in about 30 years by 2008. In China alone, about 400 million people were lifted out of absolute poverty.
Poverty today mainly afflicts societies that were outside the ambit of the 19th century industrial revolution, which was isolated and concentrated in Europe and North America, ushering in extensive technological development and unprecedented wealth in that part of the world. The isolated nature of this revolution has ultimately led to extreme global economic inequality, and regional imbalance.
3. Our Responsibilities in Addressing Poverty in the World
Addressing poverty is a collective responsibility: individuals, states and the international community, have obligations to perform. Some countries overcame poverty and are successful. Our responsibilities in this regard, should be determined by their successful strategies – and more.
A. Fixing the Fundamentals – Building Human Capital and Effective Public Institutions
Poor and undeveloped societies are largely composed of unskilled populations, served by highly ineffective public institutions. This may be reversed by undertaking broad-based complementary investments in human capital development and building effective public institutions.
Education systems should be adequate to produce highly knowledgeable and skilled people, who are relevant in meeting social needs – for education is the ability to meet life’s situations.
Establishing effective bureaucratic and political institutions should be given due attention to support the governance aspects of fundamentals like education. Institutions should be democratic, accountable and responsive to people’s needs, in cognizance of their development challenges.
B. Ensuring Structural Transformation – Emergence and Expansion of Modern Industries
Most – if not all – poor societies are characterized by the existence of a dual system of large rural populations and tiny urban populations: the dominant rural populations are dependent on subsistence agriculture, occupy largely unproductive land (if any), live in abject poverty; and for them, social service delivery is difficult. This dualistic formation hinders development.
Structural transformation eliminates this dualism by turning subsistence agriculture into commercial farming, complete with agro-industrial cottages that turn agricultural farmers into manufacturing workers. This ensures optimum land use, eventually turning rural areas into semi-urban centres, able to retain their inhabitants and thus easing social service delivery there, hence development.
Reforms to remove or compensate for costs faced by modern industries are necessary, including opening up world markets for nascent manufacturers to sell their products. New industries can be stimulated by economic policy incentives, to attract investments that will employ workers in traditional economic sectors.
The two development strategies – developing the fundamentals and social transformation – are mutually reinforcing: successful countries have done them together.
C. Encouraging Migration
Migration improves people’s global income position, and human capital. It is the single most important trend to alleviate poverty today, even exceeding international trade. International migration should be encouraged.
D. Promoting Charity
Our world is increasingly interdependent; and so are human communities. This interdependence should be harnessed through charity – kindness and compassion for one another – as an important tool in closing the gap between the rich and poor, especially now, when, ‘We live in an age of empathy.’ For poor people, ‘their poverty is a problem of distribution, not a problem of being unwilling or unable to work.’ Charity helps in solving this problem.
Poverty poses danger to global development. Its persistence is a mockery of today’s age of plenty and robust scientific achievements.
As the Dalai Lama said, ‘We, therefore, need effective international action to address [it] from the perspective of the oneness of humanity, and from a profound understanding of the deeply interconnected nature of today's world.’
Fortunately, poverty is decreasing. The factors responsible for this decrease should be consolidated and replicated to advance impoverished countries. We should also promote financial literacy among the poor, to avoid ‘poor economics.’
Notes and References
1. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents (2002), at 4-5. The resulting international networks have ushered in a host of other benefits and opportunities to all manner of people globally. For instance, promoting democratic governance among states, as well as improving accountability, respect for the rule of law and access to justice in the states, all of which serve to guarantee a life of dignity for all people. The international community works as a global watchdog, ensuring the observance of and respect for these global values among states. In particular, the tremendous growth of international trade has, for instance, facilitated enormous wealth creation; and although this wealth is still unevenly distributed today – meaning high international inequality – this uneven world resource distribution is nevertheless, decreasing gradually and international cooperation has a lot to do with the ongoing reduction. Therefore, that globalization has positively changed the prospects of millions of people around the globe, is self-evident.
2. But this is not to say that globalization is not without its excesses or failures. Indeed, Joseph E. Stiglitz, ibid., propounds that in spite of its benefits globalization has not brought its promised economic benefits to many people in developing countries that are economically and technologically weak: ‘Despite repeated promises of poverty reduction made over the last decade of the twentieth century, the actual number of people living in poverty has actually increased by almost 100 million. ... globalization has not succeeded in reducing poverty....,’ he says, at pages 5-6 of his book.
Professor Stiglitz is not alone in complaining against globalization. Professor Jan Breman reportedly said that globalisation is irrational, for example, it has turned Europe into a rich fortress, keeping out the poor, for which reason he called for good governance at the transnational level. See, Grant Bartley, ‘World Poverty and the Duty of Assistance’ (2014). (Available at https://philosophynow.org/issues/57/World_Poverty_and_the_Duty_of_Assistance, accessed on 22 November 2014, at 00:26 hrs.)
3. Roger Thurow and , Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty (2010).
4. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) – Chapter 2 – A Billion Hungry People?
5. A.S. Hornby, A.P. Cowie & A.C. Gimson, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English (1983), at 664.
6. Ibid., at 658.
7. Commission for Social Development, Thirty-sixth Session, E/CN 5/1998/4. The Commission adopted Texts on Promoting Social Integration, stressing that poverty is a root cause of social exclusion and called on the international community to support developing countries' efforts to address social and economic problems. See, Press Release at http://www.un.org/press/en/1998/19980223.SOC4444.html (accessed on 21 November 2014, at 23:03 hrs).
Further, Grant Bartley, ‘World Poverty and the Duty of Assistance’ (2006), notes that the problem with famine is not the lack of food in the world, but the lack of rights of access to food. So generally, to be poor means not having access to food, clean water, medical care and education, all of which are fundamental human rights. (Emphasis in the original – available at https://philosophynow.org/issues/57/World_Poverty_and_the_Duty_of_Assistance, accessed on 22 November 2014, at 00:26 hrs.)
8. Article 25(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (This declaration affirms that all human beings have the right to freedom from want and freedom from fear. The human rights it espouses are inclusive, interdependent and universal.) See also, Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966.
9. This association of poverty and hunger is institutionalized in the United Nation’s first Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which is to ‘Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.’ The Millennium Development Goals are a series of time-bound targets, cutting across development areas of interest to the United Nations. They were agreed upon at the Millennium Summit in the year 2000, with a 2015 deadline.
10. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, supra note 4. According to Banerjee and Duflo, ‘Indeed, poverty lines in many countries were originally set to capture the notion of poverty based on hunger—the budget needed to buy a certain number of calories, plus some other indispensable purchases (such as housing);’ noting also that, ‘... hunger and poverty are assumed to go hand in hand: The inability of the poor to feed themselves properly is also one of the most frequently cited root causes of a poverty trap.’ See, ibid.
11. Dani Rodrik, in his Week 11 lecture on ‘Poverty and Development,’ in the Global Civics lecture series, of the Global Civics Academy. Those living above this standard daily are classified as the rich people; those who live on it per day are the poor; while those who live below it are the absolute poor, living in absolute deprivation.
12. Dani Rodrik, ibid. He states that in 1981, 1.9 billion people in the world lived below the absolute poverty line, but by 2008, this had reduced to 1.3 billion people, which to him is the world’s greatest ever achievement as nothing like this had ever been achieved before. He also says that China and other East Asia countries have registered the highest success in reducing poverty, having experienced a very rapid rate of growth since the 1970s, although inequality there also skyrocketed during this time; and that reductions in absolute poverty were also registered in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America, in 2000.
13. Grant Bartley, ‘World Poverty and the Duty of Assistance’ (2006). (Available at https://philosophynow.org/issues/57/World_Poverty_and_the_Duty_of_Assistance, accessed on 22 November 2014, at 00:26 hrs.) Bartley defines absolute poverty as poverty that is life-threatening.
14. Thus, Joseph E. Stiglitz, supra note 1, at 5, states that, ‘A growing divide between the haves and the have-nots has left increasing numbers in the Third World in dire poverty, living on less than a dollar a day.’
Moreover, while in many parts of the world poverty is a daily phenomenon and a permanent feature of people’s lives, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, supra note 4, state that, ‘For many ... in the West, poverty is almost synonymous with hunger;’ meaning that it is transient and easily curable. It is no wonder therefore, that Grant Bartley, supra note 13, characterizes poverty as one of the ‘preventable causes.’
15. It follows therefore, that one’s prospects of being either rich or poor today are largely dependent on which part of the world one lives in: for instance, if the person is born in a relatively rich country, then his or her prospects of living decently are much higher than the one born in a poor country.
16. Yet, particularly in the case of developing countries, as Rodrik, supra note 11, says, ‘... they often start with the same conditions – like being colonised, similar resource comparative advantage and weak institutions.’
17. The findings of the study by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, supra note 4, on the relationship between poverty and hunger, highlights the significance of institutional effectiveness in tackling poverty. Their study found that, ‘... most recent famines have been caused not by lack of food availability but by institutional failures that led to poor distribution of the available food, or even hoarding and storage in the face of starvation elsewhere.’
18. Dani Rodrik, ‘Economic Development and Governance’ (2013), at 9. According to Wikipedia, ‘Human capital’ (2014), available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital (accessed on 19 November 2014, at 16:00 hrs), ‘Human capital is the stock of knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
Alternatively, Human capital is a collection of resources—all the knowledge, talents, skills, abilities, experience, intelligence, training, judgment, and wisdom possessed individually and collectively by individuals in a population. These resources are the total capacity of the people that represents a form of wealth which can be directed to accomplish the goals of the nation or state or a portion thereof.
It is an aggregate economic view of the human being acting within economies, which is an attempt to capture the social, biological, cultural and psychological complexity as they interact in explicit and/or economic transactions. Many theories explicitly connect investment in human capital development to education, and the role of human capital in economic development, productivity growth, and innovation has frequently been cited as a justification for government subsidies for education and job skills training.’ (Emphasis in the original).
19. For all its benefits, Dani Rodrik, Lecture on Poverty and Development, supra note 11, notes that global governance can support national governance, but cannot substitute for it. This means that poor countries must pay serious attention to their governance issues if they are to eliminate poverty and develop to the level of their advanced counterparts.
20. These are the poor agricultural workers, whom Professor Jan Breman described as ‘the biggest working class in the world.’ See, Grant Bartley, supra note 13.
21. Indeed, the World Development Report 2008 of the World Bank, Agriculture for Development (2008), at 26, found as much: that, ‘Three out of four poor people in developing countries—883 million people—lived in rural areas in 2002. Most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, directly or indirectly.’
22. The World Development Report 2008, ibid., at 72, captured the effects of this transformational process stating that, ‘Many rural households move out of poverty through agricultural entrepreneurship; others through the rural labor market and the rural nonfarm economy....’
23. Dani Rodrik, Economic Development, supra note 18.
24. Dani Rodrik, Lecture on Poverty and Development, supra note 11. Rodrik observes that a permissive global environment has facilitated growth in the successful countries. On this note, the United States’ non-reciprocal trade programme with select African countries under the framework of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a legislation that offers tangible incentives for select African countries to continue their efforts to open their economies and build free markets, by providing trade preferences for quota and duty-free entry into the United States for certain goods, deserves commendation. As noted by Rodrik, ibid., we need to have enough cooperation among the nations of the world to ensure that we have a moderately open world economy.
The Report of the Secretary-General, In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All (2005), at 18, pointed out that, ‘At present, developing countries are often denied a level playing field to compete in global trade because rich countries use a variety of tariffs, quotas and subsidies to restrict access to their own markets and shelter their own producers.’ It is hoped that the AGOA will go a long way to open and reduce inequity in the international trading system, at least in so far as the US market is concerned.
But inequities in international trade are still promoted by several in-built mechanisms like transfer pricing that undermine the growth of international trade and investment, to the detriment of poor and developing countries. Gideon Benari, ‘Tricky Tax: Two Tax Avoidance Schemes Explained’ (2009), at 2, defines transfer pricing as, ‘The setting of prices for intra-group or company transfers of goods and services. In other words it is establishing the price for a transaction taking place between two entities (a company or subsidiary) that are owned by the same person or company. The transfer price is the price at which the goods or services are transferred or 'sold'.’ It is a scheme, devised by especially multinational corporations (MNCs), calculated to unconscionably increase profits through unfair commodity pricing across national borders through circumventing or setting aside market forces of demand and supply and other political conditions, while avoiding tax payment. MNCs exploit the difference in tax rates across states and increase their overall profits, by manipulating the transfer price to shift profits to the subsidiary which is subject to the lowest tax rate. Like Benari explains, ‘For this to occur, the subsidiary paying the higher tax rate needs to purchase from the one subject to the lower tax rate. Raising the transfer price raises the cost to the buyer, which means its profits are reduced and it pays less tax. The losses to the buyer are gains to the seller. These gains are now taxed at a lower tax rate where the selling subsidiary is registered. Although the overall profits before tax (pre-tax profits) for the group do not change, the overall net profits will increase. This is because it is now paying a lower tax rate on a greater portion of its profits.’
This scheme is injurious to trade interests of developing countries that lose tax revenue because they neither have MNCs of their own nor do they have sufficient control over those operating within their borders. It is reported that, ‘In 2006 ... developing countries lost an estimated $858.6 billion – $1.06 trillion in illicit financial outflows.’ See, Benari, at 4. This is in spite of the existence and application of the arm’s length rule, whose aim is to promote the growth of international trade and investment. According to Benari, the rule states that, ‘... when pricing the transfer of goods or services between companies with joint ownership, the companies should treat the transaction as if it was taking place between two unconnected parties. In other words, they should try to emulate the market conditions as closely as possible, thereby attaining what would be a fair market price. When setting the price, they should take into consideration all other factors which would affect the price if the transaction occurred between two unconnected entities.’ See, Benari, at 4.
Benari suggests unitary taxation with formulary apportionment as an alternative to the arm’s length rule in dealing with transfer pricing. The unitary taxation with formulary apportionment formula, he says, ‘... allocates the world wide tax liability of a multinational based on its economic links (i.e. sales, payroll etc.) with each tax jurisdiction in which it operates.’ See, Benari, at 4.
25. For example, land donations, tax holidays, credit subsidies and export promotion. Grant Bartley, supra note 13, states that Dr Linda Yueh, an economist, who while speaking on China’s phenomenal growth, attributed the country’s phenomenal growth to internal government policies, such as providing productivity incentives to farmers – not received wisdom about development: foreign aid, investment or trade. It seems that on the contrary, too much development wisdom and controls can be injurious to developing economies.
Thus, Dani Rodrik, Lecture on Poverty and Development, supra note 11, advises that, ‘... we should not have so many global rules and disciplines that will reduce the policy space that each national government needs in order to fashion the national policies that are going to set into motion these policies or this process of structural transformation, which is significant for economic growth.’
26. Dani Rodrik, Lecture on Poverty and Development, supra note 11. Rodrik stresses that, ‘If you rely only on structural transformation, you get growth starts, perhaps, but these eventually run out of steam. If you rely only on fundamentals, you get rapidly low rates of growth. The miracle economies that have done rapid growth, decade after decade, have been doing both; and that is what fundamentally accounts for the success of countries like Taiwan and South Korea that have moved to the category of relatively developed countries.’ Further, Rodrik states that success or the lack of it among the developing countries has been influenced by policy choices at national level; and not by the nature of global governance. He observes that the global economy is not a global commons because most bad economic policies are borne mostly at home and similarly the benefits of good economic policy accrue mostly at home.
27. Branko Milanovic, The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality (2010), at 123. According to Milanovic, ‘... one’s own efforts, one’s country doing well, and migration are three ways in which people can improve their global income position,’ but he stresses that, ‘The role a person’s effort plays is small; he cannot influence his country’s growth rate, so the only alternative that remains is migration.’ See, ibid.
28. Michael A. Clemens, ‘Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?’ 25 JEP (2011) 83, at 89; potential migrants (those yet to emigrate) particularly benefit through knowledge spillovers, research and development, physical health, political leadership, fertility and capital accumulation. See, ibid., at 90. For instance, it is believed that the vast emigration of Mexicans to the United States between 1970 and 2000 may have caused an 8% increase in Mexicans’ nominal wages in Mexico; comparable increases in home wages were caused in mass emigration from Sweden and Ireland. See, ibid., at 94.
29. The United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report 2009, Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development (2009), states that migration has positive impacts on migrant’s places of origin and destination (see, chapter 4 thereof). At places of origin, impacts can be seen on improved income through remittances that can be used to finance major investments and immediate consumption needs. Other areas are education, health and broader cultural and social effects – ideas, practices, identities and social capital; collectively known as social remittances; that alter social, class and ethnic hierarchies. At places of destination, immigration increases innovation and investments, leading to more employment.
Michael A. Clemens, supra note 28, at 99, also theorizes that this happens through remittances (saying that global flows of remittances are rising toward $400 billion per year) and intra-household welfare, whereby migrants gain more household income by moving to work in other countries. In his view, barriers to emigration place one of the fattest of all wedges between humankind’s current welfare and its potential welfare. See, ibid., at 101.
30. Michael A. Clemens, supra note 28, at 84, states that, ‘The gains from eliminating migration barriers dwarf–by an order of a magnitude of two–the gains from eliminating other types of barriers. For the elimination of trade policy barriers and capital flow barriers, the estimated gains amount to less than a few percent of world GDP. For labor mobility barriers, the estimated gains are often in the range of 50–150 percent of world GDP.
In fact, existing estimates suggest that even small reductions in the barriers to labor mobility bring enormous gains.’ He also emphasizes that, ‘... the gains from reducing emigration barriers are likely to be enormous, measured in tens of trillions of dollars.’ See, Clemens, ibid., at 87.
31. Unfortunately, however, Michael A. Clemens, ibid. at 83, says that tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries constitute the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy, in so far as policy barriers in high-income countries deter vast numbers of people in low-income countries from emigrating to settle in rich countries. The rich countries are placing large obstacles to migration, because the temptation for people to migrate from poor countries are very high.
Branko Milanovic, supra note 27, at 164, has warned of consequences that this will have on the crucial subject of globalization, saying that, ‘... if both large income gaps between countries persist and rich countries limit or prevent migration, globalization may have to be scaled back.’
Michael A. Clemens, supra note 28, at 97, rightly notes that, ‘The extent of feasible emigration depends on the willingness of politicians at potential destinations, acting as agents for their electorates, to allow immigration.’ But this may be a tall order for them, depending on prevailing political realities, because he hastens to observe that, ‘If the median voter at the destination holds relatively little capital or skill, this could limit the willingness of citizens and politicians in that country to reduce impediments to emigration from poor countries. Noneconomic attitudes such as nationalism can also play an important role. ... it is the wealthier, better educated, and less-nationalist individuals in rich destination countries who have more favourable attitudes toward immigration.’ See, ibid.
32. International Task Force on Global Public Goods, Meeting Global Challenges: International Cooperation in the National Interest (2006), at 3.
33. Tenzin Gyatso, ‘Human Rights, Democracy and Freedom’ (2008) (Available at http://www.dalailama.com/messages/world-peace/human-rights-democracy-and-freedom, accessed on 21 November 2014, at 01:43 hrs). Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama.
34. Tenzin Gyatso, ibid., says that we should be, ‘... compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals. The awesome power that economic institutions have acquired in our society, and the distressing effects that poverty continues to wreak, should make all of us look for means of transforming our economy into one based on compassion;’ in affirmation of the principles of dignity and social justice for all, embodied in the UDHR.
Indeed, the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, supra note 32, stated that international cooperation has many uses, including being an important tool for altruistic purposes. This means that charity should not just be something for and about the individual, but a matter of interest to the human community as a whole.
35. In strongly advocating kindness to strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006), at 162-166, says that we have, ‘To recognize that everybody is entitled, where possible, to have their basic needs met ...’ which, for us translates into basic obligations; meaning that we should strive to meet those people’s basic needs, by giving a fair share of our basic obligations (in consistency with our being) to make the world a better place, for them to lead decent lives. Appiah however, warns that one need not sacrifice everything, for everybody, in a bid to do so; that, ‘... our obligation is not to carry the whole burden alone.’ See, ibid., at 164. This is precisely because, as reported by Grant Bartley, supra note 13, ‘you are also an ‘end’, not merely a ‘means’: you ought to look after yourself as well as others.’
Meeting our basic obligations to help others meet their basic needs is a duty; for as Tenzin Gyatso, supra note 33, says, ‘This constantly increasing gap between the ‘haves' and the ‘have-nots' creates suffering for everyone. Concerned not only for ourselves, our families, our community and country, we must also feel a responsibility for the individuals, communities and peoples who make up the human family as a whole. We require not only compassion for those who suffer, but also a commitment to ensuring social justice.
If we are serious in our commitment to the fundamental principles of equality that I believe lie at the heart of the concept of human rights, today's economic disparity can no longer be ignored. It is not enough merely to say that all human beings must enjoy equal dignity. This must be translated into action.’
This duty is incumbent upon the rich everywhere – more so in North America, Europe and East Asia – who, as stated by Grant Bartley, supra note 13, ‘... evidently have some sort of duty to those with much less than ourselves.’ (Emphasis in the original.) For as reportedly submitted by Professor Jonathan Glover, the poor have humanitarian claims on the rich – on the basis of a human recognition of other people’s suffering – and also claims of justice, such that the rich have a duty to try to ‘live life at the moral maximum.’ See, Grant Bartley, supra note 13. (Emphasis in the original.)
36. Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011) – Chapter nine thereof – Better Angels. Pinker says empathy is a good thing in general, though not always. In this book, he calls for mutualism which he describes as a situation, ‘... where an organism benefits another one while also benefiting itself, as with an insect pollinating a plant, a bird eating ticks off the back of a mammal, and roommates with similar tastes enjoying each other’s music.’ See, ibid.
37. See, Grant Bartley, supra note 13.
38. Tenzin Gyatso, supra note 33, notes that, ‘Wherever it occurs, poverty is a significant contributor to social disharmony, ill health, suffering and armed conflict. If we continue along our present path, the situation could become irreparable.’
39. Tenzin Gyatso, ibid.
40. Dani Rodrik, Economic Development, supra note 18, at 3, 4 & 5. He also argues that national governments and their policies deserve that credit. See, ibid., at 11.
Rodrik’s belief is vindicated by Dr Linda Yueh’s assertion that China’s phenomenal growth is attributable to its internal government policies, such as providing productivity incentives to farmers – not received wisdom about development: foreign aid, investment or trade. See, Grant Bartley, supra note 13.
41. The term chosen by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, supra note 4, to denounce poor spending habits among poor people, which they lament as follows:
‘The poor often resist the wonderful plans we think up for them because they do not share our faith that those plans work, or work as well as we claim.... Another explanation for their eating habits is that other things are more important in the lives of the poor than food.
It has been widely documented that poor people in the developing world spend large amounts on weddings, dowries, and christenings, probably in part as a result of the compulsion not to lose face. The cost of weddings in India is well-known, but there are also less cheerful occasions when the family is compelled to throw a lavish party....
Generally, it is clear that things that make life less boring are a priority for the poor. This may be a television, or a little bit of something special to eat—or just a cup of sugary tea.... Festivals may be seen in this light as well. Where televisions or radios are not available, it is easy to see why the poor often seek out the distraction of a special family celebration of some kind, a religious observance, or a daughter’s wedding. In our eighteen-country data set, it is clear that the poor spend more on festivals when they are less likely to have a radio or a television. In Udaipur, India, where almost no one has a television, the extremely poor spend 14 percent of their budget on festivals (which includes both lay and religious occasions). By contrast, in Nicaragua, where 56 percent of rural poor households have a radio and 21 percent own a television, very few households report spending anything on festivals.’
In this book, Banerjee and Duflo deny the existence of a poverty trap – at least from the perspective of its relationship to hunger – maintaining that the world is for the most part too rich for it to be a big part of the story of the persistence of poverty, only that the poor seem to have many choices, including expenditures on alcohol, tobacco and festivals. Not surprisingly therefore, some rich people think that there is still a residual feeling that the poor are responsible for their own poverty and so it is their responsibility. See, Grant Bartley, supra note 13.
Having had the benefit of living among poor people and therefore witnessing poverty first hand, I find this analysis highly persuasive, though not conclusive, because I know for sure that there are very many genuinely poor people. I submit that poor people should be assisted to watch their spending habits.