12-01 The Puzzle
Poverty means people living in fear for their future. For farmers it is going to be climate change. “Mother, is Doug Jones poor?” I was asking my mother if my best chum was poor because he never had a quarter on Fridays to buy a war savings stamp to fight the Nazis. It was 1941…
12-02 Big and Small
Nations with foreign investment and people bartering. Economic activity recorded and unrecorded. Big and small solutions for dealing with poverty. It is amazing what you can learn from your own family experiences. I had two immigrant grandparents on my mother’s side that raised themselves out of poverty through hard work. And then there were the…
12-03 Successes
Aid agencies focus on big stuff like roads and electric power. Governments focus on small stuff like financing small business. When five nations pledged to support the development of a new national forum on small business development in Tokyo in 1975, they included Japan, the US, Canada, South Korea and Taiwan. We had the backing…
12-04 Enterprise
The world needs to combine enterprise and welfare solution to reduce poverty. Planting trees works. When I was eight years of age I sold lemonade in front of our house. It was an attempt at enterprise. And I thought I was poor with an allowance each week of only ten cents. But mother made the…