Out of Poverty

Out of Poverty
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Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781605098951
ISBN-13 : 1605098957
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Book Synopsis Out of Poverty by : Paul Polak

Download or read book Out of Poverty written by Paul Polak and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “exciting” new approach to lifting people out of poverty that rejects the ineffective top-down mindset (Steve Wozniak, confounder of Apple Computer). Based on his twenty-five years of experience, Paul Polak explodes what he calls the “Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths”: that we can donate people out of poverty; that national economic growth will end poverty; and that big business, operating as it does now, will end poverty. Polak shows that programs based on these ideas have utterly failed—in fact, in sub-Saharan Africa, poverty rates have actually gone up. These failed top-down efforts contrast sharply with the grassroots approach Polak and his organization International Development Enterprises have championed: helping the dollar-a-day poor earn more money through their own efforts. Amazingly enough, unexploited market opportunities do exist for the desperately poor. Polak describes how he and others have identified these opportunities—and have developed innovative, low-cost tools that have helped in lifting seventeen million people out of poverty.


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