Fighting poverty together
Subtitle: rethinking strategies for business, governments, and civil society to reduce poverty
By: Aneel Karnani
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230105874
Subjects: Poverty; Government policy; Job creation
Description: "Global poverty continues to be a major problem, one that has received much attention and resources for the last 60 years. The developed countries, international institutions such as the World Bank and United Nations, various aid agencies, and civil society have contributed trillions of dollars fighting poverty yet there are more "poor" today than there were a decade ago. In this hard-hitting polemical Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with today's approaches to reducing poverty. He proposes an eclectic approach to poverty reduction that emphasizes the need for business, government and civil society to partner together to create employment opportunities for the poor, arguing that the only way they will ever be truly lifted out of poverty is to create jobs that provide financial support for entire local communities in developing nations."--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Chapter 1: Fighting Poverty * Part I: Failure of the Libertarian Approach * Chapter 2: Microcredit Misses its Mark * Chapter 3: Mirage at the Base of the Pyramid * Chapter 4: Romanticizing the Poor * Part II: Fighting Poverty * Chapter 5: Selling Beneficial Goods to the Poor * Chapter 6: Employment is the Solution * Chapter 7: More Government, Please * Chapter 8: Social Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Hype.