Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
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摆脱贫困：传统方法失败时什么有效
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2008
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P. Polak
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P. Polak
在这本打破传统的书中，企业家兼发明家保罗·波拉克打破了“三大消除贫困神话”：仅靠捐款就能消除贫困，国民经济增长将消除贫困，大企业将消除贫困。这些失败的自上而下的方法与波拉克和国际开发企业倡导的草根方法形成鲜明对比：帮助每天一美元的穷人通过自己的努力赚更多的钱。波拉克描述了他和其他人如何开发创新的低成本工具来帮助贫困的农村农民利用市场改善他们的生活。波拉克在书中讲述了他和国际发展企业所帮助的人们的精彩故事，特别是尼泊尔农民克里希纳·巴哈杜尔·塔帕（Krishna Bahadur Thapa），他从摆脱贫困为结束世界贫困提供了一种新的、有前途的方法，这种方法尊重穷人本身的创业精神。
In this iconoclastic book, entrepreneur, and inventor Paul Polak explodes the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": donations alone will end poverty, national economic growth will end poverty, and Big Business will end poverty. These failed top-down approaches contrast sharply with the grassroots approach Polak and International Development Enterprises have championed: helping the dollar-a-day poor earn more money through their own efforts.Polak describes how he and others have developed innovative, low-cost tools to help impoverished rural farmers use the market to improve their lives.Throughout the book Polak tells fascinating stories about the people he and IDE have helped, especially Krishna Bahadur Thapa, a Nepali farmer who went from barely surviving to solidly upper middle class.Out of Poverty offers a new and promising way to end world poverty, one that honors the entrepreneurial spirit of the poor themselves.