Introduction: learning to do the simple and obvious -- Twelve steps to practical problem solving -- The three great poverty eradication myths -- It all starts with making more money -- Design for the other 90 percent -- From subsistence to new income -- Affordable small-plot irrigation -- A new agriculture for one-acre farms -- Creating vibrant new markets that serve poor customers -- Slums : the incubator for new income opportunities -- Poverty and the planet -- Taking action to end poverty -- Bahadur and his family move out of poverty
Summary
The author explores some of the methods by which governments are attempting to eradicate world poverty and why they have been unsuccessful; and describes how he and others have developed low-cost tools to help poor farmers become more self-sufficient
Exposes the top 3 things that we are doing wrong in our efforts to end the root causes of poverty. This book details solutions for what actually works in ending poverty
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index
