Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail

In this impassioned and iconoclastic book Paul Polak, entrepreneur, inventor, and “pioneer of pro-poor technologies” (CNN.com) tells why mainstream poverty eradication programs have fallen so sadly short and how he and the organization he founded, International Development Enterprises, developed an approach that has already succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty.

Drawing on his more than twenty-five years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the “Three Great Poverty E...