PovertyCure Radio
Summary: PovertyCure(.org) is an international coalition of over 230 partner organizations and 1 million supporters (and growing - like us on facebook.com/povertycure). We have spent the last several years traveling the world collecting stories and insights from over 150 interviews with entrepreneurs, economists, political and religious leaders, missionaries, NGO workers, and everyday people. Now we are sharing those voices, stories, and insights we have gathered with YOU. Tune in for interview clips and lectures focused on identifying more effective ways of addressing global poverty. Warning: this podcast will make you think.
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Podcasts:
But the real question is, how do people create lasting prosperity for their families and their communities? In other words, what are the foundations of human flourishing?
What does prosperity look like and how does it come about? Are the predominant models of aid and charity truly promoting sustainable development, or have we created a poverty industry that does more for us than it does for those really in need?
In this Acton University lecture, Brett Elder examines the effects of Western missions and aid funding.
Chad Jordan of Cornerstone International discusses development, aid and his new book, Shut Up & Give?
In this Acton University seminar, Anielka Münkel explores the promises and limitations of "social entrepreneurship."
In this Acton University seminar Anthony Bradley goes beyond the rhetoric of environmental stewardship toward implications for appropriate roles for government, the market, and mediating institutions for real change.
Akyol explains the background to the Arab Spring developments, the place of religion in these changes, and the likely future opened by the revolutions.
Mustafa Akyol gives a brief overview of Islamic sources on the issue of economic freedom and an examination of the newly developing “Islamic capitalism.”
John Ryan was the foremost proponent of Catholic social teaching in depression-era America and an enthusiastic supporter of the New Deal.
Ross Emmett examines the way in which ideas have historically shaped the unfolding of economic life throughout time.
Michael Matheson Miller examines the political, social, and economic thought of Edmund Burke,
Rev. Paul Hartmann examines the limits of markets and the role of law in building a moral culture.
W. Bradford Wilcox examine the limits of markets and the role of law in building a moral culture.
Michael Matheson Miller examines the social and cultural critiques of global capitalism and the impact of globalization on culture.
Anthony Bradley explores the societal implications of understanding business as a social justice vocation.