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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2014/11/why-we-need-a-new-economic-model/ by Jeffrey D. Sachs 26/11/14 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM]
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2014/11/why-we-need-a-new-economic-model/ by Jeffrey D. Sachs 26/11/14 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM]
  Two schools of thought tend to dominate today’s economic debates. According to free-market economists, governments should cut taxes, reduce regulations, reform labor laws, and then get out of the way to let consumers consume and producers create jobs. According to Keynesian economics, governments should boost total demand through quantitative easing and fiscal stimulus. Yet neither approach is delivering good results. We need a new Sustainable Development Economics, with governments promoting new types of investments.
  Two schools of thought tend to dominate today’s economic debates. According to free-market economists, governments should cut taxes, reduce regulations, reform labor laws, and then get out of the way to let consumers consume and producers create jobs. According to Keynesian economics, governments should boost total demand through quantitative easing and fiscal stimulus. Yet neither approach is delivering good results. We need a new Sustainable Development Economics, with governments promoting new types of investments.
=====A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America=====
 
[https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america by Terry Gross 3/5/17 npr]
In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America's housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation."
=====Does foreign aid always help the poor?=====
=====Does foreign aid always help the poor?=====
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/10/does-foreign-aid-always-help-the-poor/ by Ana Swanson 23/10/15 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM]
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/10/does-foreign-aid-always-help-the-poor/ by Ana Swanson 23/10/15 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM]