Dear Editor, History teaches us that one of the most effective ways for the powerful to maintain control is through division. The Romans mastered it, Julius Caesar exploited tribal rivalries, and Machiavelli wrote about it centuries later. Colonial powers perfected it by amplifying ethnic, tribal, and class differences to keep populations from uniting. The principle […]
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3 economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what works and what doesn’t in the fight to reduce global poverty. The award went to MIT’s Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and Harvard’s Michael […]
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Asylum seekers transferred from Manus to Port Moresby ‘forced into poverty’
PORT MORESBY, 03 OCTOBER 2019 (SBS)—Asylum seekers who were transferred from Manus Island to Port Moresby are being “forced into poverty”, according to an advocacy group. In recent months, dozens of asylum seekers on the island took up an offer from Papua New Guinea authorities to move to the capital, with the promise they would […]