The Social Strata of a City Called “Manila”

Manila is the freewheeling, overpopulated somewhat dangerous capital of the Philippines. She’s grown up accustomed to the doting, if somewhat overprotective, treatment of her paternalistic foster dad (in this case, the good old US of A). Up to the Sixties, she came across like the one with a bright future ahead of her, earning straight A’s and Brownie points from the international community. Daddy’

The “99 Percent” Applied Globally

“How vivid, and unexpected, was this poignant proof that we all indeed share a common fate. When we fight poverty and disease in any impoverished part of the world, and thereby bolster the world’s shared commitments to human dignity and survival, the lives we save may truly include our own and our children’s in some future turn of fortune”. - Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Poss