Articles by Ethan Arpi
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Monday
June 12
2006Diabetes and Development
Morbidly obese boys and girls who slurp down 20oz sodas after consuming their prepackaged, plastized lunches are the poster children, so to speak, of the diabetes epidemic that is ravaging the United States. But other countries, especially those in the developing world, are no longer immune to...
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Friday
June 9
2006USAID’s Microfinance Conference
In the last several days we have talked a lot about our mapping project for the Inter-American Development Bank?s upcoming conference, ?Building Opportunity for the Majority.? But as important as this conference is for the BOP, it should not overshadow other equally important events that...
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Friday
June 9
2006BOP and The New Face of Consumerism
In an article published last month in the New York Times Magazine, Rob Walker explains how a group of hipsters are challenging consumerism by actually participating in it. As Walker reports, those who find a corporation?s business practices morally odious have turned to socially responsible...
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Wednesday
June 7
2006Food for Thought: Urban Agriculture in the Developing World
In the next two decades mass human migrations from rural to urban areas are expected to radically transform the world?s demographic landscape. Much of this migration will take place in the developing world, where rural inhabitants now subsist on small scale farming. As these farmers migrate...
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Tuesday
June 6
2006Clean and Green: The Brave New World of Composting Toilets
This past Saturday, The Washington Post ran an article, Fighting Our Flux Fixation, on the increased use of eco-friendly toilets in the DC region. What piqued my interest was The Post?s discussion of composting latrines, which have the potential to improve sanitation in many urban and rural...
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