A key to alleviating poverty

New Post (78) : A key to alleviating poverty

Book : "Creating a World Without Poverty"
-Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus

These are some of the major concepts the author proposes:
-The key to alleviating poverty lies in SOCIAL BUSINESSES.
-These businesses are NOT governmental institutions, charities or multilateral organizations.
-Their underlying business motive is NOT to make money but rather to provide a social benefit.

Most certainly “a book to reflect on”.

***Heck, think so far out of the box that you can't even see the piece of paper the box was drawn on.

Charlie Brown

One Village One Product

New Post (77) : One Village One Product

Japan's rural entrepreneurial scheme (OVOP) is going abroad.

As they say good ideas travel. Great ideas travel faster.

The One Village One Product scheme is a way of rethinking the possibilities for small, rural populations, introducing ways to re-brand what they do best.
Founded in the Kyushu prefecture of Oita over 20 years ago, it's now being exported to some of the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
It’s greatest potential is the entrepreneurial independence it encourages in many of the world's poorest communities.

Hat’s off to the Japanese ! Never out of great ideas. Most inspirational.

Countries that are pre-dominantly rural, … … …like an India for instance with (over) 600,000 villages could and should take lessons from the Japanese on “how to make this concept work” in India. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act should be incorporating and adopting this concept as an integral part of it’s schemes and funding it adequately……….(rather than merely handing out doles……..for political gains…….as is the case today !).

The potential of rural (...read that as "over 70% of the population" of) India is grossly under-explored and under-tapped.

Charlie Brown

Yes I would, if I could, I surely would

New Post (76) : Yes I would, if I could, I surely would

EL CONDOR PASA (IF I could)
By Simon and Garfunkel

“I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would

Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
Its saddest sound

I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would”.

***The refrain is most memorable--------------Yes I would, if I could, I surely would.

I’d rather pick an honest bloke than a crooked politician
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would.

Pity !---that---"Honest-Politician" is an "OXY-MORON". (a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms).

Charlie Brown