Minnesota Public Radio News cites Justin Sandefur's recent FP article in an article about global poverty.
From the article:
Every so often, the smart minds of the tech world come up with an innovation that looks capable of doing serious good in the Third World: a merry-go-round that pumps fresh water, for example, or a soccer ball that captures the energy of kids who play with it to generate electricity. But then it turns out that the soccer ball performs less well than a cheap solar lamp, and that the merry-go-round pump requires more playing than there are hours in the day.
Professionals in the fields of development and international aid are pursuing programs that could reduce extreme global poverty to nearly zero by the year 2030. But even that goal is not as straightforward as it sounds, given that the poverty line for a person in the developing world is $1.25 a day. In the United States, the poverty line for a family of four is calculated at $63 a day.
Read it here.
