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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Historically, these resources have only materialized when countries have achieved massive expansions of economic productivity and opportunity.

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A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Rather, as Davy details, Black land loss was the product of white violence, including widespread lynchings—buttressed by legal, quasi-legal, and illegal land seizures. By 1920, 14 percent of farmers in the United States were Black; today, fewer than two percent are.

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Can CDFIs Rein in Capitalist Excess?

NonProfit Quarterly

She called on other corporations to likewise support CDFIs to enable them to better address pressing economic issues, such as poverty, housing, and food insecurity. Where are consumer product companies? Where are the supermarket chains?” McHale asked.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” We treat the rest of life on this planet as a set of products or objects that don’t have rights. How is suffering at the hand of market forces a ubiquitous but uneven phenomenon?