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Behind The Scenes: “Can We Shop To End Poverty?”

Blum Center
March 13, 2013

Prof. Roy micro-lectured into a micro-phone. Abby tried to brew tea in cold water. And Tara painstakingly cut some denim pockets with an X-ACTO knife. The following vid resulted. Take a behind-the-scenes look into the making of #GlobalPOV’s “Can We Shop To End Poverty?” video.

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The #GlobalPOV Project is a program of the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor. Based at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley, the GPP Minor creates new ways of thinking about poverty and inequality and undertaking poverty action.

Join the #GlobalPOV conversation on Twitter. Like us on Facebook. Visit our website. Take some action already— but only after critically evaluating the long-term costs and implications of such action, of course.

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