Paul Polak (1933-2019) and Team

@OutofPoverty

Father of movement. Author: Out of Poverty & Business Solution to Poverty. Founder Windhorse, SpringHealth, Transform Energy, &

Denver, CO
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Joined January 2009
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    5 Nov 2019

    Paul Polak Built Better Tools for Farmers in Poor Countries: via

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    Mar 16

    Women across the world are leading the way in sustainable entrepreneurship. Working with Sama Sama, Adam is helping bring sanitation to her community, while breaking down gendered perceptions of entrepreneurship.

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    Feb 28

    RT iDEorg: RT : While increasing food production was successful. it did little to eradicate extreme poverty When very poor people find ways to grow their income, they find their way out of poverty more efficiently than disaster relief or foo…

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    Feb 27
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    Spot on. Furthermore, the subsidies and schemes in the name of the poor actually reduce employment opportunities for them. This happens because of taxes that finance them. The taxes severely stifle businesses that are the true source of wealth creation and poverty eradication.

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    Feb 27
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    Fantastic article and direction you're thinking. 's rule is that a business has to have the potential to reach 100 million people & generate at least $10 billion in sales in order to be worthwhile. (I think the 10b is a higher # than I've seen before)

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  6. Feb 26

    While increasing food production was successful. it did little to eradicate extreme poverty When very poor people find ways to grow their income, they find their way out of poverty more efficiently than disaster relief or food distribution programs

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  7. Jan 30

    Excerpt from Paul Polak’s book “Out of Poverty, What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail” The 12 Steps to Practical Problem Solving ( Chapter One)

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  8. Jan 29

    Paul Polak - 15 Rules for Business Success in Any Market -

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    11 Jul 2017

    Why technology alone will never provide sanitation for the poor

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  10. 17 Nov 2021

    Nassim Taleb, questions the ability of experts to predict just about anything. He asserts instead, in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: The actions of 2.5 billion people in the world who live on $2/day will shape Black Swan disruptions:

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  11. 17 Nov 2021

    Want to Scale Up Your Development Project? Make a Bollywood Movie!

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    3 Nov 2021

    In all our , we like to discuss some of the criticisms of our . In the case of , we recommend this article by related to appropriate technology. Have a read...

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  13. 17 Aug 2021

    The Last 500 Feet by Paul Polak Developing practical and profitable new ways to cross the last 500 feet to the remote rural places where poor families now live and work is the first step towards creating vibrant new markets that serve poor customers.

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  14. 26 May 2021

    In his final years, Paul Polak Asks, " What Is Your Legacy? "

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  15. 11 Mar 2021

    Why Growing Income is More Important to Food Security Than Growing More Food: by Paul Polak

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  16. 18 Feb 2021

    Profitability is the most direct path to achieving scale, which carries its own profound social impacts with it." -Paul Polak

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  17. 7 Feb 2021

    8) Jugaad innovation. The Hindi term jugaad connotes improvisation, working with what you have and paying unflinching attention to continuous testing and development. A cynic might call it simply ingenuity.

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  18. 7 Feb 2021

    7) Aspirational branding. This is even more critical for $2-a-day markets than for those serving the top 10 percent. Without aspirational branding that generates in buyers’ minds an appreciation for its most widely appreciated benefits and attributes.

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  19. 7 Feb 2021

    6) Last-mile distribution. Design for radical decentralization that incorporates last- mile (even “last 500 feet”) distribution, employing local people at local wages in a marketing, sales and distribution network that can reach even the most isolated rural people.

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  20. 7 Feb 2021

    5) Private capital. Design for a generous profit margin so that you can energize private sector market forces, which will play a central role in expanding any venture drawing from a pool of trillions of $ in private capital rather than the $ typically available from NGO's

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  21. 7 Feb 2021

    4) Ruthless affordability. Design and implement ruthlessly affordable technologies and supremely efficient business processes, offering prices not just 30 to 50 percent less than First World prices but often an order of magnitude less, or 90 percent.

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