{"id":4235,"date":"2010-12-02T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2010-12-02T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:06:50","slug":"de-worming-pills-for-50-or-a-laptop-for-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/12\/02\/de-worming-pills-for-50-or-a-laptop-for-100\/","title":{"rendered":"De-worming pills for $.50 or a laptop for $100?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentaro Tomaya on why high technology, in and of itself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/BR35.6\/toyama.php\">doesn&#8217;t solve<\/a> the problems that lead to poverty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does a hundred dollars for a computer make sense when $0.50 per year, per child for de-worming pills could reduce the incidence of illness-causing parasites and increase school attendance by 25 percent?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The disparity between what donors care about and what recipients of aid might need speaks to the cultural gap between have&#8217;s and have-not&#8217;s. To make donors happily pay for the basics of enfranchisement requires that donors learn to appreciate what they have come to take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>We love our computers. We want to share that love. It&#8217;s been too long since we felt a similarly strong affection for clean water and basic, universal education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentaro Tomaya on why high technology, in and of itself, doesn&#8217;t solve the problems that lead to poverty: Does a hundred dollars for a computer make sense when $0.50 per year, per child for de-worming pills could reduce the incidence of illness-causing parasites and increase school attendance by 25 percent? The disparity between what donors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}