Monthly topic
Hey, folks! How's summer going? Feeling the heat yet? Biting your nails for team USA tonight? Aaanyway, here's what you guys chose to be the monthly topic for July:
Poverty & Wealth, Charity & Welfare
Could turn out to be a heavy subject indeed...
Some details on the topic
- Poverty threshold and relative poverty.
- The Protestant work ethic.
- Causes of poverty and the cycle of poverty.
- Economic and social indexes for analysing poverty.
- The welfare state and the nanny state.
- Extreme poverty: malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, mortality.
- Political and social marginalisation of the poor; financial exclusion.
- Social injustice and the income gap.
- Poverty and gender relationships.
- Diseases of poverty; disability and poverty.
- Poverty and education; impact of health on intelligence.
- Housing problems of poverty: slums, street children, orphanages.
- Poverty and slavery, human trafficking, poverty-related violence.
- Aid and development aid.
- Developing countries' debt, debt relief and conditionality.
- Reverse brain drain and human capital flight.
- Economic freedoms and social mobility.
- Microfinance and microcredit.
- Effects of climate change on poverty.
- Voluntary poverty: simple living and asceticism.
- Welfare systems and social programs around the world.
- Major aspects of current social assistance programs.
- Criticisms of welfare: conservative and liberal criticisms.
- Benefit fraud and welfare fraud.
- Altruism and charity, alms and philanthropy.
- Capitalism, poverty and welfare.
And here's the poll for August:
Poll Monthly topic
(You're free to suggest more topics).
Poverty & Wealth, Charity & Welfare
Could turn out to be a heavy subject indeed...
Some details on the topic
- Poverty threshold and relative poverty.
- The Protestant work ethic.
- Causes of poverty and the cycle of poverty.
- Economic and social indexes for analysing poverty.
- The welfare state and the nanny state.
- Extreme poverty: malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, mortality.
- Political and social marginalisation of the poor; financial exclusion.
- Social injustice and the income gap.
- Poverty and gender relationships.
- Diseases of poverty; disability and poverty.
- Poverty and education; impact of health on intelligence.
- Housing problems of poverty: slums, street children, orphanages.
- Poverty and slavery, human trafficking, poverty-related violence.
- Aid and development aid.
- Developing countries' debt, debt relief and conditionality.
- Reverse brain drain and human capital flight.
- Economic freedoms and social mobility.
- Microfinance and microcredit.
- Effects of climate change on poverty.
- Voluntary poverty: simple living and asceticism.
- Welfare systems and social programs around the world.
- Major aspects of current social assistance programs.
- Criticisms of welfare: conservative and liberal criticisms.
- Benefit fraud and welfare fraud.
- Altruism and charity, alms and philanthropy.
- Capitalism, poverty and welfare.
And here's the poll for August:
Poll Monthly topic
(You're free to suggest more topics).