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Is Teaching a Man to Fish the Best Model for Economic Development?

Faith and Public Life | July 9, 2020 | Summer Honors Program

Is Teaching a Man to Fish the Best Model for Economic Development?

Catherine Armstrong is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she majored in business administration with concentrations in entrepreneurship and business development/supply chain management and a minor in Spanish. She was a participant...

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When “Doing Good” in Development Becomes a Problem

Faith and Public Life | July 9, 2020 | Summer Honors Program

When “Doing Good” in Development Becomes a Problem

Courtney Noll is a recent graduate from Cornell University, where she majored in industrial and labor relations. Her interests lie in labor and gender issues in international development. She was a participant in the 2020 Summer Honors Program course on “International...

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Values, Faith, and Corruption

Faith and Public Life | July 19, 2019 | Economics, Global Affairs, Poverty

Values, Faith, and Corruption

As a participant in this year’s AEI Summer Honors Program, I had the opportunity to engage with a group of 20 other students in a course titled “International Economic Development: Why Institutions Matter,” which was taught by Dr. Stephen Smith from Hope College....

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Don’t Give Up on Giving: How a Theology of Creation Informs Resilient Poverty Solutions

Sara Belz | November 2, 2015 | Poverty

Don’t Give Up on Giving: How a Theology of Creation Informs Resilient Poverty Solutions

Recently, Joe Coletti at The Federalist wrote about private giving in his reviews of Robert Lupton’s “Charity Detox” and Arthur Brooks’ “The Conservative Heart.” Coletti contrasts old concepts of charity with the efforts of people like Lupton, who founded the...

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Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.

Wasted Land, Wasted Opportunity

Michael Hendrix | July 20, 2015 | Economics, Society

Wasted Land, Wasted Opportunity

Walk through any major city and you will see weedy lots, fenced-in squares, and derelict developments that many of us try to ignore. Many of these places sit in the middle of the densest, most prosperous areas of urban America. Cities with underdeveloped or vacant...

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Michael Hendrix is the director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute, where he manages scholars, conducts research, and leads outreach.