Description

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This is the story of the one question about global poverty we never thought to ask: who owns it? It's a question with an unexpected answer, one that challenges everything that we thought we knew about what poverty is, and what we can do about it. This is a story of a powerful data-driven methodology being used in a dozen countries across 5 continents. It's a new approach that puts poor families in charge of defining and diagnosing their own unique, multidimensional poverty—who by owning the problem, own the solution. This book is for all the governments, development NGOs, charities, dreamers, thinkers, doers and leaders who are frustrated with limiting their aspirations to reducing poverty, or alleviating its effects—and the lack of progress we face in doing either. This is a book about unleashing trapped energy within poor families to do the unthinkable: eliminate global poverty once and for all.

About the Author

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Dr. Martín Burt is the founder and Executive Director of the Paraguayan Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting social entrepreneurship and economic self-reliance to eliminate poverty worldwide. He has written books on economics, development, municipal government, poetry and education. He graduated from Pacific University and George Washington University. He has a PhD from Tulane University, and is a Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Praise For…

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“Este libro producirá cambios importantes en las políticas públicas” — Edmund Phelps, Premio Nobel de Economía 2006; Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Universidad de Columbia

“No se trata solamente de un nuevo aporte a la literatura sobre desarrollo, sino de un nuevo paradigma para lograr un cambio real." — Ken Wilber, autor de The Theory of Everything y The Religion of Tomorrow

“De manera contundente, Burt plantea que los conocimientos y la creatividad de quienes viven en la pobreza son fundamentales para eliminarla; y que los puntos de vista largamente desatendidos del Sur son igual de importantes que los del Norte.” — Richard Matthew, Director del Cuerpo Docente, Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Universidad de California en Irvine

“Después de haber trabajado en desarrollo social durante los últimos 40 años, estoy entusiasmada de ver cómo Burt define y simplifica la pobreza y la coloca donde pertenece... en la familia” — Zanele Mbeki, trabajadora social y fundadora, Women’s Development Banking Trust (Sudáfrica)

“Este libro es un llamado para devolver la pobreza a quienes la viven y asegurar que las oportunidades que ofrecen se ajusten a las necesidades de las mismas familias pobres” — Carmen Velasco, cofundadora, ProMujer Internacional

“De manera convincente este libro sostiene que es fundamental tomar en cuenta los conocimientos, el talento, las opiniones y la experiencia de las personas que viven en la pobreza para que el esfuerzo y los recursos de los gobiernos y las organizaciones de desarrollo tengan éxito en superar esa pobreza”. — Vicky Colbert, fundador y directora, Fundación Escuela Nueva (Colombia)