Please Stop Patronising the Poor
Nov 6 · 6 min read
We need to change our rhetoric on ‘The Poor’.

I was sitting in a seminar not too long ago, talking about the economics of education and social justice. It was part of a course on Education, Globalisation and International Development, unironically, in the University of Cambridge.
The lecturer gave us a scenario to discuss in groups. In the scenario, we were parents in a developing…

