Notes.

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 For a brilliant book to read about the human scale of helping the poor then read this.

Rhythms of Poverty: Reconsidering our affluent approach to the poor Paperback – Aug. 16 2013 by Murray Nickel (Author)

 https://www.amazon.ca/Rhythms-Poverty-Reconsidering-affluent-approach/dp/0992020913 

Holy Post with David French - A Unified Theory of Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXTm6RxQ3Pk

The Economist

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/27/donald-trump-has-begun-a-mafia-like-struggle-for-global-power

https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/home

World Bank

Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024

World Development Report 2024

LSE on development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh7TIYuU4JM&t=3930s

Deirdre McCloskey

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Vol. 1 of 3 of the trilogy “The Bourgeois Era,”, University of Chicago Press, 2006, as a trade book, 616 +

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World. Vol. 2 of 3 of the trilogy "The Bourgeois Era," 2010, University of Chicago Press, 571

Especially.

Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World. Vol. 3 of the trilogy “The Bourgeois Era,” 2016

OECD data on development assistance

https://www.oecd.org/en/about/committees/development-assistance-committee.html

NPR on USAID

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/10/g-s1-52964/rubio-announces-that-83-of-usaid-contracts-will-be-canceled

CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/americas/china-us-migrants-illegal-crossings-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

ABC New Daily 2024-05-22 Why Chinese people are the latest boat people

ABC [Australia] South Africa – Lust for Red Gold.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-26/south-africa-copper-crime-wave/104384580