Fighting Poverty Together : Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty

"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."-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Chapter 1 Fighting Poverty 7 Part I Failure of the Libertarian Approach 26 Chapter 2 Microcredit Misses Its Mark 27 Chapter 3 Mirage at the Base of the Pyramid 63 Chapter 4 Romanticizing the Poor 89 Part II Effective Strategies 114 Chapter 5 Selling Beneficial Goods to the Poor 116 Chapter 6 Employment Is the Solution 147 Chapter 7 Government Intervention 187 Chapter 8 Civil Society 235 Chapter 9 Rage Leading to Action 257 Notes 260 Index 289 Front Matter....Pages i-v Fighting Poverty....Pages 1-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Microcredit Misses Its Mark....Pages 23-58 Mirage at the Base of the Pyramid....Pages 59-84 Romanticizing the Poor....Pages 85-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-112 Selling Beneficial Goods to the Poor....Pages 113-143 Employment Is the Solution....Pages 145-184 Government Intervention....Pages 185-232 Civil Society....Pages 233-254 Rage Leading to Action....Pages 255-257 Back Matter....Pages 259-297