Item Detail
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28604
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4
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13
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English
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Spreading Zion Southward, Part I : Improving Efficiency and Equity in the Allocation of Church Welfare Resources
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2002
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35
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4
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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91-109
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This study will demonstrate that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints has at least 375,000 faithful and active members living in dire poverty in the less developed countries (LDCs) of the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere. Included among these are 50,000 malnourished and growth-stunted children under the age of fifteen, two thousand annual cases of severe, preventable disability other than growth-stunting, and nine hundred annual, preventable deaths (mainly children under fifteen). In some of the wards, 80 percent of the children are chronically malnourished and/or dying of malnutrition. Most of this suffering could be relieved by a reallocation of less than 10 percent of the $400 million received annually by the church in cash donations for welfare, including fast offerings. However, only 2 percent of that amount actually goes to the LDCs where 45 percent of the church membership resides. The other 98 percent is spent on members in wealthier countries (WCs), where it duplicates government programs and entitlements already paid for by their taxes. This represents an expenditure of $133 per faithful member in WCs and $5 each in LDCs. In some of the poorest congregations, per capita welfare spending is less than thirty cents, much too small to have a significant impact on malnutrition or disease. [From the text]
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