Who Owns Poverty?: Revised Edition

What if nearly everything we thought we knew about poverty was wrong? Who Owns Poverty? answers this question by recounting the extraordinary story of the Poverty Stoplight, one of the most effective anti—poverty programs in the world.

The Poverty Stoplight was developed in 2010 by Dr. Martín Burt, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Fundación Paraguaya. In Who Owns Poverty? Burt explains how the Poverty Stoplight works—by putting poor people in charge of defining and diagnosing their own mult...