The Village Net - The Net Result Is Opportunity

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"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." Mother Teresa
RESOURCES
 
The World Bank analysis on poverty may be found here (aplogies for the long link, but it takes you directly to the report)
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20153855~menuPK:435040~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html 
 
Curious about the Grameen Bank model of microlending?  www.grameen-info.org
 
For a wealth of information about microfinance, visit www.microfinancegateway.org
 
To learn more about Africa, try http://allafrica.com/
 
 
 
Staff book recommendations
 
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (2007). Muhammad Yunus
The founder of Grameen Bank has moved along a continuum of working with individual businesses to promoting the development of social enterprises.
 
The White Man's Burden (2007). William Russell Easterly
Economist Easterly supports our belief that top-down, "big" aid programs don't work, and that to end poverty we must work from the ground up.