Product Description

Out of Poverty teaches us to think simple. Paul Polak brings forward ideas and solutions that bypass government agencies and other leaden institutions. Ideas that work!" (Paul Newman) Paul Polak, whose non-profit organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top three myths in our efforts to end the root causes of poverty: You can donate people out of poverty, national economic growth will end poverty, and Big Business will end poverty. He then, through the story of a Nepali farmer, puts forth a framework for ending poverty that has already been proven to work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238937 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
"Out of Poverty by Paul Polak, offers optimism. Optimism not just for those fighting poverty and those fighting to get out of it, but for any company interested in a basically untapped 1 billion-person market." -- Jessie Scanlon "February 22, 2008; BusinessWeek"

About the Author
PAUL POLAK (Lakewood, Colorado) fled Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Holocaust and eventually settled in Canada. He received his MD from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. In 1981 he founded IDE, which makes innovative, low-cost water-resource technologies accessible to the world's poorest farmers, enabling them to escape the cycle of subsistence poverty.