Suggested Interview Questions
for Dale Hanson Bourke
Author of The Skeptics
Guide™ to Global Poverty
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Does the topic
of global poverty make you feel guilty or hopeless?
Are you
confused by terms such as “third world”, “debt relief,” and “NGOs”?
Wish someone
would explain the causes of global poverty?
Wish you could
do something to make a difference?
Today’s guest,
author and humanitarian Dale Hanson Bourke, is here to help.
- Why write a book on
poverty? It seems like most people
already know quite a bit. Do we really have anything new to learn?
- Most Americans believe
the US
spends a large chunk of our budget in helping the world’s poor. Is this accurate? And do you think we are doing a very
good job of alleviating poverty?
- Your book addresses some
questions we don’t usually say out loud (such as “aren’t some poor people
just lazy?” and “why don’t the poor just get jobs?”). Do you find that people are often
embarrassed to ask the questions that need to be asked?
- Give our audience an
understanding of the basics: who are the poor and where do they live?
- Why are people
poor? What contributing factors are
we able to affect?
- Explain a few terms
for us that sometimes seem interchangeable: third world countries,
developing countries, and the Global South.
- Explain why many
humanitarians believe educating women is an important key to reducing
poverty rates.
- There must be
thousands of relief agencies, humanitarian organizations and religious
groups doing work to reduce poverty worldwide. How can I choose a group to partner
with—one that is fiscally responsible and measurably effective?
- In addition to giving
money, what else can Americans do to alleviate poverty?
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Guest:
Dale Hanson Bourke, journalist and humanitarian
Book title: The Skeptics
Guide™ to Global Poverty
Publisher: Authentic Books
Available: September 2007, wherever
books are sold