Out of poverty : what works when traditional approaches fail
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Out of poverty : what works when traditional approaches fail
（A BK currents book）
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2009
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Originally published: 2008
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
I. Poverty's Myths & Realities
Chapter 1: The Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths
Chapter 2: It All Starts With Making More Money
Chapter 3: Grassroots Enterprises: The Vehicle for New Income
II. Creating New Wealth From Grassroots Enterprises
Chapter 4: From Subsistence to Cash Income for Small Farm Enterprises
Chapter 5: A New Agriculture for One Acre Farms
Chapter 6: Affordable Irrigation Breakthroughs for Small Farms
Chapter 7: Creating Vibrant New Rural Markets
Chapter 8: Design for the Other Ninety Percent
Chapter 9: Stimulating Jobs and Grassroots Enterprises in Urban Slums
Chapter 10: Grassroots Enterprise and Second Order Interventions: Education, Health, Energy, Water and Sanitation, Housing and Transport.
III. The Way Forward
Chapter 11: Creating New Wealth from Grassroots Enterprises: Twelve Steps
Chapter 12: Taking Action to End Poverty
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