Announced today: $4.4 billion over four years from the IMF (584.1 billion shillings) $322.7 million of US government funds to Kenya (42.8 billion shillings) I was having a hard...

Say you're born poor, or in a family that's truly needy. You'll be surrounded by lack or low-quality circumstances — poor education, environment, nutrition, exposure. You're trappe...

" Let the young man in his desperation go out and hunt. If he kills the elephant, his poverty ends. If the elephant kills him, his poverty ends. ~ Author unknown

Let the young man in his desperation go out and hunt. If he kills the elephant, his poverty ends. If the elephant kills him, his poverty ends!!

Let the poor breath, do not suffocate them..

In the 1990s, South Africa was “opened up” to the “global financial system,” promising to pull millions of Black people out of poverty. Instead, the new economic measures massively...

Anti-malaria, pandemic response, mitigating extreme poverty, life extension research, mitigating existential risks (including AI) and thinking about the multimillion-year future of...

Zakah in the Arab world A thread 🧵

Thread on Islamic Economics & how it eradicated poverty. TLDR; Islamic Economics supersedes every cringe-"ism" and potentially can eliminate all forms of financial oppression inc...