Mumbai: Making our way through the steamy morning of Mumbai with cars careening within millimeters of each other amid the constant symphony of tooting horns — one of the few traffic safety precautions on the streets of the city! We were unprepared for the relative calm of the bustling campus of Mumbai University, where our …
Category: Community Organizing
Wal-Mart in India
New Orleans The largest company and largest employer in the world is of course Arkansas’ own, Wal-Mart. The business model has a lot of elements — low prices, low wages, large supply, convenience to customers, are among them — but another one is the need to constantly expand whether that means opening 300 or more …
Ending Extreme Poverty
New Orleans: Bono, Paul McCarthney, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Beyonce, and a mess of others in ten cities and eight countries were singing about it, there was a movie on HBO about it, and the richest countries in the world meeting as the G8 in Scotland are talking about it, so I just have to say …