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What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
5 Spot
February 2008
On Sale: April 23, 2008
232 pages
ISBN: 1576754499
EAN: 9781576754498
Hardcover
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Based on his 25 years of experience, 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 IDE 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 17 million people out of poverty.
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