The Rules of Poverty
No, poverty is not an accident or a immutable fact of life. That’s according to Joe Brewer, the hyper-articulate mind…
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Being Nick Kristof
Welcome to the Humanosphere podcast, our weekly look at the world of global health and development. Tom and I begin with…
At the intersection of health and peace, a genocide survivor returns to Burundi
Burundi has some of the world’s worst health indicators, including high rates of child malnutrition and mortality. It suffered from…
Burma: Past, Present, and Future
Welcome to the Humanosphere podcast, our weekly look at the world of global health and development. Tom and I begin with…
Bangladesh workers ask Americans to make garment factories less deadly
Welcome to the Humanosphere podcast, our weekly look back at the world of global health and development.
This week we discuss the horrific and deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh with Kristen Beifus, executive director of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition. By coincidence, Beifus’ organization had co-organized a visit and protest in Seattle featuring Bangladeshi garment worker Sumi Abedin who had survived what, until this week, had been the country’s worst industrial disaster – a factory fire last November.
Geek Heretic explains why technology can’t solve the poverty problem
Kentaro Toyama is a geek heretic, or at least, that’s what Tom Paulson dubbed him last year. Now it’s the…
Brightening Up Chocolate’s Dark Side
Welcome to the Humanosphere podcast, our weekly look back at the world of global health and development. This week we…
Roger Thurow on why Hunger should not exist
Humanocast is a podcast and look at recent news in global health, aid and development as well as a guest interview. This week we interview Roger Thurow, for many years a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and now an expert on food policy at the Chicago Council of Global Affairs. Thurow explains witnessing the ‘obscenity’ of hunger in Ethiopia, how it changed him and what he hopes to achieve by focusing on this issue in his most recent book The Last Hunger Season.
The King of Global Health
Welcome to the Humanosphere podcast – a look at recent news in global health, aid and development as well as…
On Water Day, a chat with Marla
Welcome to the inaugural Humanosphere podcast, featuring a look at recent news highlights in global health, aid and development as well as a guest interview. This week we briefly review the Gates Foundation’s push for a better condom, questions about the legitimacy of TOMS Shoes’ sales pitch and the Obama Administration’s latest attempt to convince people it has a global health policy agenda. The podcast is produced by Ansel Herz.