{"id":134,"date":"2023-02-05T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2023-03-11T06:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T11:23:55","slug":"poverty-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/projects\/poverty-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty &#038; Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/chass\/files\/2023\/02\/ARB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-135 size-full\" \/>Many Mario Kart enthusiasts are familiar with the rush of racing down Rainbow Road, barely squeaking around a corner, and catching a power-up from one of the floating square icons on the screen\u2014or less ideally, slipping on a banana peel laid by another racer and flying off the side of the road into oblivion. This heated competition between multiple players, who use a variety of game tokens and tools to speed ahead or thwart their competitors, is part of what makes the classic Nintendo racing game that has been around since the early 1990s so appealing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>\u201cIt\u2019s been fun since I was a kid, it\u2019s fun for my kids, in part because anyone can play it,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/andrew-bell\/\">Andrew Bell<\/a>, a Boston University College of Arts &amp; Sciences assistant professor of earth and environment. But as a researcher studying economic principles, Bell also sees Mario Kart as much more than just a racing game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>In a recent paper, Bell argues that the principles of Mario Kart\u2014especially the parts of it that make it so addictive and fun for players\u2014can serve as a helpful guide to create more equitable social and economic programs that would better serve farmers in low-resource, rural regions of the developing world. That\u2019s because, even when you\u2019re doing horribly in Mario Kart\u2014flying off the side of Rainbow Road, for example\u2014the game is designed to keep you in the race.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>Articles:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>BU Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/could-mario-kart-teach-us-how-to-reduce-world-poverty-and-improve-sustainability\/\">Could Mario Kart Teach Us How to Reduce World Poverty and Improve Sustainability?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Mario Kart enthusiasts are familiar with the rush of racing down Rainbow Road, barely squeaking around a corner, and catching a power-up from one of the floating square icons on the screen\u2014or less ideally, slipping on a banana peel laid by another racer and flying off the side of the road into oblivion. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18026,"featured_media":0,"parent":83,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}