Nicholas D. Kristof

China’s Missing Children: An Exchange

‘China’s Worst Policy Mistake’?

Has any government policy ever affected more people in a more intimate and brutal way?

On Isaiah Berlin: Explorer

Loans to the Poorest: Where Does the Money Really Go?

Sue Halpern and Nicholas Kristof have been engaged in an exchange about microfinance, following her recent NYR review of his new book (co-authored with Sheryl WuDunn), Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. The first part of their conversation can be found here. The next installment appears below.

The Micro Miracle?

In the November 19 issue of The New York Review, Sue Halpern wrote about Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Her piece describes the systematic abuse of women documented by Kristof and WuDunn throughout the world, and the considerable success of microfinance programs—pioneered by the Nobel-prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus, whose book is also included in Halpern’s review—in countering this problem by helping poor women gain economic power. Following is an exchange between Halpern and Kristof about the spread of microfinance and some of the criticisms that have emerged about it.

What to Do About Darfur

The Chinese and the Dalai Lama

Beer & Poverty

Poverty: An Exchange

Wretched of the Earth

Aid: Can It Work?

Genocide in Slow Motion

The Hermit Nuclear Kingdom

China’s Mosaic

A Little Leap Forward