In Tina Rosenberg’s article, “The Taint of the Greased Palm,” she writes about how her garbage man in Mexico demanded “a tip” each week because he was not paid enough to provide for his family. She acknowledged these kind of bribes as a normal part of her life, but she claimed that, “What people really need, of course, is a system that doesn’t require bribery to get things done” (Rosenberg 6). She suggests that if the government and other businesses in the formal economy pay their workers a higher wage, that they would be able to provide for their family and therefore would no longer need the bribes to survive. This is a possibility that we have discussed extensively in class in order to predict its effectiveness. In this article, Rosenberg
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In order to provide for their families, they need to extract as much money as possible from other, less fortunate families in need. Although it may seem like a selfish gesture, many individuals’ main goal is to make sure that their family survives, no matter the moral or ethical cost (Jones, …show more content…
This is unfortunate because the individuals at the center of the book acknowledged that education is one of the only avenues out of the conditions they live in. One of the main characters, Asha, can be characterized as a “slum boss,” and is also the head of and teacher at a “bridge” school that is funded through a foreign aid organization. The funding for this school comes from an outside aid organization because “spreading educational opportunity was not among the Indian government’s strong suits” (Boo 13). Asha never taught the classes herself, rather she instructed her daughter, Manju, to teach only on the select days when supervisors were attending the class session to monitor and evaluate progress. Instead of spending the funds allocated by the foreign aid organization on the school, Asha took the money in order to fund Manju’s college education in hopes of her education eventually opening a door to upward social mobility for the family. However, the students of the school were not being taught and therefore were not given the opportunity to prosper through their own
In order to provide for their families, they need to extract as much money as possible from other, less fortunate families in need. Although it may seem like a selfish gesture, many individuals’ main goal is to make sure that their family survives, no matter the moral or ethical cost (Jones, …show more content…
This is unfortunate because the individuals at the center of the book acknowledged that education is one of the only avenues out of the conditions they live in. One of the main characters, Asha, can be characterized as a “slum boss,” and is also the head of and teacher at a “bridge” school that is funded through a foreign aid organization. The funding for this school comes from an outside aid organization because “spreading educational opportunity was not among the Indian government’s strong suits” (Boo 13). Asha never taught the classes herself, rather she instructed her daughter, Manju, to teach only on the select days when supervisors were attending the class session to monitor and evaluate progress. Instead of spending the funds allocated by the foreign aid organization on the school, Asha took the money in order to fund Manju’s college education in hopes of her education eventually opening a door to upward social mobility for the family. However, the students of the school were not being taught and therefore were not given the opportunity to prosper through their own