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This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Darly Collins, Johnathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven in their book “Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less...

Para muchas personas y organizaciones, los fondos federales son mitos que otros viven, o misterios que sólo algunos pueden penetrar. La realidad es que los billones de dólares en programas de fondos federales son más fáciles de solicitar de lo que uno se imagina. Sólo hay que conocer "las...

FEMA \ THE STOREFRONT FOR DISASTER RELIEF A BACK ROOM OF HIDDEN AGENDAS is compiled from the experiences of a veteran FEMA housing inspector, and via his dedicated research pertaining to FEMA's disaster relief programs, Chad Beckwith Smith unravels the labyrinth of the agency's inner workings, its...

THE NEW YORK TIMES**,** USA TODAY**, AND** WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues...

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad...

Today could be the third strike against the United States of America. Will the people stand up and make a swing to do something for their country or will greed strike US out (70+ HyperLinks)?

Winner of Maverick of The Year Award and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and featured by WSJ, Fortune and Bloomberg TV for his battle to defeat unlawful actions by the FDA, Dr. Gulfo provides a first-hand riveting account of an against-all odds fight that demonstrates what it...

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It's a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations...

Recent Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of corporations in American democracy. Bringing together scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides essential grounding for today’s policy debates.

The international financial crisis that has held our global economy in its grip for too long still seems to be in full stride. Former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown believes the crisis can be reversed, but that the world’s leaders must work together if we are...

In this groundbreaking book, two economists explain why economic imbalances cause civil collapse—and why America could be next. From the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to Imperial Spain, the Great Powers of the world emerged as the greatest economic, political, and military forces of their...

How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding...

Three times in American history the United States has found itself at critical crossroads: The Civil War, The Great Depression, World War II.It now faces Congressional impasse, debt and fiscal challenges, a need for fairer tax codes, resolution of a health care crisis, trade imbalances, job...

La revolución tecnológica ha producido un conjunto de cambios en el mercado que implican el conocimiento del nuevo medio: Internet. Conocer a fondo todas las estrategias, aprovechar todo su potencial y segmentar para llegar a los públicos objetivos, es sin duda el reto de todas...