Thinking Outside the Box on Global Poverty

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/14/Paul_Polak_on_Out_of_Poverty

Author and activist Paul Polak discusses innovative approaches to fighting global poverty.

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Meet Paul Polak author of Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail that 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 - Books Inc.

International Development Enterprises (IDE) founder Paul Polak has collected his experiences from more than 25 years finding innovative solutions to poverty in a new book, "Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail."

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[omgnoob4life]

i will consider thinking outside the box when theres any proof of thinking going on inside it.

[86rishabh]

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[BreakPovertyTogether]

Love Paul's humor and his practical commitment to help. Saw him at the Symposium at Baylor. Brilliant approach. You should see what they are doing for rural Africa. Great work.

[ubuibiok]

bless u