The first step to finding a solution is to understand the problem.
"For all of the charitable institutions that we've seen in the last century, these things do not account for the rise out of poverty of the poorest…" Read more »
"The first thing I would say to those who say that we must come and give, otherwise these people are incapable of improving their situation or…" Read more »
" I don’t know of any country in the world where a bunch of foreigners came and developed the country. I don’t know one: Japan? Korea? No! No…" Read more »
"The absence of land title absolutely hurts the poorest of the poor... You can't start an economy without ownership not being in question. This is my…" Read more »
"I would describe an entrepreneur like a person who sees an additional color. Everybody sees chaos. An entrepreneur sees patterns." Read more »
"The microfinance institutions, they come in to talk not about savings, but to talk about credit. Without savings, you don’t have any backbone ...…" Read more »
"In poor countries, you see that there are a lot of very small companies and a few very large companies and nobody in the middle. Yet we know that…" Read more »
"We've been colonized for far too long ... that cultural enslavement where we think we've got to look to Europe for standards, to America for help…" Read more »
"The United States gives subsidies to its farm industry ... so they overproduce. Now the NGOs are shipping this aid, and you’re putting farmers all…" Read more »
"Once you settle the issue of who lives where and who does what with who, people start understanding the value of standard rules. " Read more »
""The poor need to be given these access to markets, and need to create their own possibilities, because they will. It's not that people don't have…" Read more »
"Globalization is the tsunami wave that’s coming up on the shores of every nation. And all the rules are changing." Read more »
"There’s a false notion that poor countries are poor because rich countries are rich." Read more »
"There will always be a resistance to measuring results as long as the people who are in power to serve poor people have perverse incentives to…" Read more »
"Business not only creates valuable goods and services, but we’re creating employment for people that allows them to have a whole different sense…" Read more »
"Aid agencies, instead of enforcing and supporting corrupt political regimes, actually have to help people at the ground examine the question of what…" Read more »
"An issue or problem should be dealt with by the people who are closest to it." Read more »
"Human beings have the spark of divinity in them and poverty degrades and defaces the image of God in people. That’s why it’s a scandal." Read more »
"The hallmark of the Christian is a person who gives cheerfully and who gives generously… But I don’t think as Christians we should give…" Read more »
"The singular issue is improving human capital." Read more »
"Today’s poor need all the connections they can get...Often the poor are better off moving from rural isolation to dense urban networks where…" Read more »
"What creates wealth? People create wealth! That is a source of untapped wealth that far exceeds the biggest oil reserves you could possibly find…" Read more »
"The ideal marriage is between a strong, well-regulated free market in a global capitalist system, but with a strong ethical-moral foundation that…" Read more »
"Business is the normative way in which people rise out of poverty." Read more »
"Those who are selling all those malaria tablets, including Indians and the Chinese who are flooding our country with anti-malaria tablets, some of…" Read more »
