Bridges Between Us
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- Some strategies that can help to ensure adequate healthcare for all
- Some policies and practices that can improve the education system and support progress
- Some potentially effective strategies for economic development in middle- and low-income countries
- Some policies and practices that can improve government accountability and reduce corruption
- The need for continual reflection by all on the complexities surrounding religion
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Religion, whether Islam, Hinduism, or any faith, can be a be a source of comfort, hope, inspiration, a calling for compassion and integrity, connection to a community with whom one can celebrate and on whom one can depend on, specially when facing uncertainties that are often around us. But when that is taken beyond the…
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Different programs associated with wealth redistribution, such as progressive taxation and other mechanisms, are important and the appropriate forms of such programs depend on the particular circumstances. They must be fair and based on reason. In addition, its important to recognize that such programs will have limited and non-lasting effect unless they are supported by…
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Principles that uphold and advance social progress are those that good men and women agree upon and include integrity | fairness | justice | truth | compassion and care | egalitarianism | basic human rights | social responsibility | individual freedom | the pursuit of happiness | ensuring the basic needs of and dignified living…
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A question that naturally arises is how does someone know which information elements are true and which are false, what is real news and what is fake news, and, particularly, what upholds and advances social progress and what hinders it? In this regard, the question also arises as to how someone would know what actions…
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There needs to be concerted and continuous efforts to encourage, support, and sustain the actions and activities of individuals and groups to create, express, and/or disseminate works of arts and culture (including visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, media arts) that uphold and advance the principles associated with social progress. Works of art and culture…
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A Short Story by: Anonymous Perhaps some bridges are held up as much by cables as by whispers Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, institutions, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. The RAV4 sped down the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, the BQE as commonly known, cutting through quiet…
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As we all know, present day society is comprised of multitudes of various entities, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, institutions, academia, micro enterprises, small businesses, large corporations, non-profit establishments, artists, bureaucrats, government agencies, governments and nations, as well as many other types of bodies. Each of these entities engage in activities and carry out actions…
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Federalist Papers Explained – by 8 Minute Masterpieces – YouTube Video – YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/xlruDaly-kE?si=62HB2IORvMNgXP2K Randomized Controlled Trials, Development Economics and Policy Making in Developing Countries – PowerPoint Presentation – Esther Duflo (Joint work with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer) – available on the internet at: https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/394531465569503682-0050022016/original/EstherDufloPRESENTATION.pdf The dirty secret of capitalism — and a…
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