Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)

Resources

Gallery

India

Food For Thought

On this page you'll find recent news stories and essays conerning development issues, as well as lectures given at Wheaton College by special guests of the HNGR Program. You'll also find a list of the books HNGR students are engaging with, as well as the scholarly essays submitted on the occasion of the first annual HNGR Symposium. Happy Reading!

See also:
HNGR Reading List
HNGR News Archive
HNGR Symposium Lectures and Papers

News

27 June 2007	BBC: One in Two Will Live in Cities
23 May 2007	BBC: Human Rights 'Eroded Worldwide'
14 May 2007	BBC: The Changing Face of Outsourcing
7 May 2007	BBC: Climate Change 'Can be Tackled'
5 April 2007	NY Times: Poor Nations to Bear Brunt as World Warms

Articles and Essays

The Ideology of Development
Article by William Easterly in Foreign Policy magazine

On Locusts and Bodies
A chapter from Denise Ackerman's book After the Locusts

The HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A Sign of Instability in a Complex Global System
By Soloman R. Benatar, University of Cape Town

Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University
On inequality and philanthropy

Guest Speakers

Audio recordings of the chapel presentations are available for free download.

April 2007	Third World Issues guest lecture by Pete Ondeng, Millennium Promise (Text)
February 2007	Chapel Address by Swaleh Karanja, Heifer International (Audio)
November 2006	Chapel Address by Dr. David Kasali of Congo Initiative (Audio)
November 2003	Chapel Address by Ruth Padilla DeBorst (Text)

| | | |
| | |