Bunker and Aruna Roy had worked for more than a quarter century in the desert state of Rajaslhan in western India. Development, they believed, was not about material benefits but about organizing people to fight for the resources and ...
Chapter 7 discusses voluntary ethical branding in greater detail. cost cutting in other areas Sweatshop critics have also claimed that increased wages, when not offset by efficiency wages or increased consumer demand, may be “readily ...
Michael Brown: “We just learned about that today.” Paula Zahn: “Sir, you're not telling me ... that you just learned that the folks at the convention center didn't have food and water until today, are you?” Brown: “Paula, the federal ...
Nowhere does this book put 'profits' or 'economic efficiency' above people. Improving the welfare of poorer citizens of third world countries is the goal, and the book explores which methods best achieve that goal.
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Based on his twenty-five years of experience, Paul 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 ...
I have learned more from talking with these poor farmers than from any other thing I have done in my life. This book will tell their story and describe some of the things these people have taught me.