Free market economies invariably concentrate economic power in the hands of a few wealthy exporters, landlords and natural resource exploiters. As a result, this privatized development path ends up being profoundly undemocratic. The World Bank and the IMF support these undemocratic practices. The vast majority of the world's resources are used by the people of the United States. Cutting down forests and using other resources is always more for the benefit of the first world than the third.
Married couples have fewer children when their lives improve economically.
We don't take our evaluation of the Pope from Planned Parenthood. We are Catholic Workers. Pray for us. Houston Catholic Worker , Vol. XIV, No. 9, December 1994.