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International Development:

1) Daniel Altman’s Managing Globalization blog has another Q & A session with Joseph Stiglitz. Also, listen to Stiglitz’s lecture in Chennai on Making Globalization Work.

2) Microcredit and its role in changing the values and behaviors of its borrowers.

3) Thomas Dichter casts a skeptical eye on microfinance’s ability to noticeably affect growth or successful business development.

4) Ranking corporations by ethics is popular, but telling the good guys from the bad is not clear-cut.

5) The Carbon Neutral Myth: Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins.

Politics & Economics:

6) Paul Krugman on Milton Friedman.

7) Edmund Phelps on Why European economies lag behind the US.

Progressive Christianity:

8) The story a Christian seeking social justice in Colombia.

Others:

9) Slate article on DonorsChoose.org.

10) The Teacher Movie.

International Development:

1) Environmental guru James Lovelock believes only a massive expansion of nuclear energy can save the world from the devastating effects of climate change.

2) The US and the meaning of ‘fair trade‘.

3) The Little Magazine on Globalisation and its Contents.

4) Economist (Dani Rodrik) wants business and social aims to be in sync.

5) Is it ethical (environmentally) to get married?

Politics & Economics:

6) Does political freedom flow naturally from economic freedom?

7) Marshall McLuhan and how politics work in the TV age.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Who are the Red-letter Christians?

9) The influence of business on evangelical Christianity.

Others:

10) We’re driving our daughters crazy!

International Development:

1) Worldpress.org on Africa’s Development in 2007: 10 Major Challenges.

2) The Walrus Magazine on Stars Above Africa and The Conspiracy against Africa.

3) Globalisation: emancipating or reinforcing?

4) Spiegel Magazine: World Social Forum looks for a business plan.

5) Owen Barder on whether Democrats or Republicans are better for the world’s poor.

Politics & Economics:

6) More reviews of Nick Cohen’s What’s Left: How the Liberals Lost Their Way here (Guardian book review), here (Guardian blog), here (The Independent) and here (spiked).

7) How rich people control politics and inequality distorts the democratic process.

Progressive Christianity:

8) The rise of America’s Christian Left.

9) The rise of Canada’s Christian Right.

Others:

10) The future of multiculturalism.

That’s part of this life: You ask God questions and you go without a lot of answers… You learn to live with the mystery of a God who doesn’t tell us all the details. Kids ask their parents a lot of questions. And sometimes parents say to their kids, “Just trust me. You don’t know enough to understand the answer. So just live awhile.” Being a Christian and reading the Bible is not a way to get all your questions answered. There are few answers in the Bible. God is wanting to draw us into a relationship of faith, intimacy, and love. That doesn’t come through information alone. It comes through trust, obedience, and the willingness to be present in the mystery of God. It comes through letting Him reveal himself to us as we’re able to receive the revelation. If God just dumped all the answers on us at once, we probably couldn’t handle it. We’d misuse it. We’d think we had control of it now. (Eugene Peterson)

International Development:

1) Boston Review on the human hand in climate change.

2) The Economist on Globalisation and the rise of inequality and Hard truths about helping the losers from globalisation.

3) The Becker-Posner Blog has Gary Becker and Richard Posner giving their thoughts on foreign aid.

4) Foreign Affairs magazine on Has Globalization Passed Its Peak?

5) The $100 Laptop as a western ideal imposed on the world’s poor?

Politics & Economics:

6) Francis Fukuyama on identity and migration.

7) Liberalism isn’t something to be ashamed of.

Progressive Christianity:

8) U2Charist to hit England for the first time.

Others:

9) What kind of readers are more empathetic? Fiction or non-fiction?

10) Charles Murray’s three-part series on education: 1) Half of all children are below average, and teachers can do only so much for them; 2) Too many Americans are going to college; 3) Those with superior intelligence need to learn to be wise.