What is also needed is adequate help from the government or the voluntary sector to explain the scheme to beneficiaries or directly help them to access it. And cash transfers, the authors say, should be accompanied with other supporting welfare measures. The authors take an axe to a number of misconceptions and lies that vested interests have spread about the idea of cash transfers. The authors say that where cash transfers have been implemented, the poor have, by and large, not given up working, nor have they become alcoholics or drug addicts. … [Read more...] about Review | Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo’s new book presents poverty and migration in new light
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Why Paul Williams, Hollywood’s most prolific black architect, drew upside down
Hollywood has long held the reputation of a community filled with liberal creatives—many of them American immigrants and California transplants. But Williams’s ability to cultivate personal and professional relationships with Hollywood’s wealthy, white community was not without injury. “Everything he did was to make the client feel comfortable,” Vance says. “That’s where the upside-down technique came from.” Sadly, and impressively, Williams developed a style of drawing his design sketches in an inverted fashion, because it allowed him to sit across from his white clients, knowing they’d prefer to not sit next to him. This subtle yet violent adjustment speaks to the flattening many black creators feel forced to perform on themselves to take up less space, even while having a seat at the table, doing work they’ve been sought out to do. … [Read more...] about Why Paul Williams, Hollywood’s most prolific black architect, drew upside down
