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The Poverty Problem: Pinpricks of Insight From Rimini, Italy

Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with smart, worldly people, and there were a half-dozen moments that caught my attention.READ»

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The Poverty Problem: Field Notes From a Global Summit in Rimini, Italy

Rimini, Italy is the site each fall of a conference that is a kind of Clinton Global Initiative for Europe, without Bill Clinton -- a meeting that tackles a single urgent topic over four days. This year’s topic is "le ragioni de penia," the reasons for poverty.READ»