In the river they swim : essays from around the world on enterprise solutions to poverty
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In the river they swim : essays from around the world on enterprise solutions to poverty
Templeton Press, c2009
- : hardbound
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes index
Other editors: Marcela Escobari-Rose, Malik Fal, and Elizabeth Hooper
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The sociologist Thomas Sowell writes, "We need to confront the most blatant fact that has persisted across centuries of social history-vast ddifferences in productivity among peoples, and the economic and other consequences of such differences." Poverty demeans dignity, shrinks the soul, wastes potential, and inflicts suffering on three billion people on our planet. We must also acknowledge that, during the past fifty yyears, the record in international assistance to the least developed countries has been disappointing; the economics-based abstractions developed in the think tanks of Europe and North America are insufficient.
In the River They Swim is the antithesis of that search for solutions to the next big theory of global poverty. From the fresh perspective of advisors on the frontlines of development to the insight of leaders like President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Pastor Rick Warren, it tells the story of change in the microcosms of emerging businesses, industries, and governments. These essays display a personal nature to their work that rigorous analysis alone cannot explain.
We learn that a Sufi master can teach us about the different levels of knowledge, the "different ways to know a river." These practitioners could have written about its length, its source, its depth, its width, the power of its current, and the life it contains. They could have invested time and money to travel to that river so that they could sit on its shores and look at it, feel the sand that borders it, and watch the birds at play over it. Instead, they dove in to swim in the river, felt its current along their bodies, and tasted something of it. They wondered, briefly, if they had the strength to swim its length, and now they share the answer.
If human development is a river, the authors in this volume, and perhaps some readers, will no longer be satisfied to stand along its banks.
目次
Foreword: Fighting Poverty with Purpose / xi
Dr. Rick Warren
Acknowledgments / xvii
Introduction / 3
Part I: The Journey
1. The Backbone of a New Rwanda / 11
H. E. President Paul Kagame
2. Flight VS 56: Riding the Cultural Divide / 15
Malik Fal
3. A Space Alien in Chaps / 23
Anne Morriss
4. A Mind for the Poor / 28
Andreas Widmer
5. Waiting for Mr. Anderson / 35
Kenneth Hynes
6. My Faith in Capitalism / 40
Andreas Widmer
7. Nature Is Destiny, and the More Nature, the Worse the Destiny / 48
Sally Christie
8. Locomotives, Needles, and Aid / 55
Malik Fal
9. On Globalization / 66
Michael Fairbanks
10. The Merits of Change / 75
Luis Alberto Moreno
Part II: Strategies for Prosperity
11. Claver's Wall / 83
Malik Fal
12. Leadership, in Context / 97
Ashraf Ghani
13. Selling Culture without Selling Out / 103
Marcela Escobari- Rose
14. The Afghan Method / 113
Diego Garcia Etcheto
15. Global Strategy in Old Kabul / 125
Robert Henning
16. After God, It's Customer Relations / 134
Aref Adamali
17. The Longest Roundabout in the World / 140
David I. Rabkin
18. Alexander the Great, Mother Teresa, and Arse / 146
Michael Brennan
19. Archimedes' Formidable Dare / 155
Eric Kacou
Part III: Globalization
20. On Presidents / 167
Michael Fairbanks
21. The Risk of Dreams / 177
David I. Rabkin
22. Praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe / 188
Marcela Escobari- Rose
23. Our Greatest Fear / 196
Michael Fairbanks and David I. Rabkin
24. Changing Mindsets / 205
Donald Kaberuka
25. Entire, unto Himself / 209
Elizabeth Hooper
26. "When Are You Coming Back?" / 218
Diego Garcia Etcheto
27. "That's My Duck!" (The Case for Integration) / 227
by Michael Fairbanks
28. "Mr. President, Tear Down the Walls!" / 236
Kwang W. Kim
29. Deciding What Not to Do / 246
Eric Kacou
Epilogue / 255
List of Contributors / 257
Index / 261
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