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Poverty alleviation - learning from Africa by Madhukar S. J. B. Rana Canadian journalist, John Stackhouse's book 'Out of poverty: And Into
Something Comfortable' (2001: Vintage Canada) tells stories (drawn from 10
years of living and travel) out of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Africa
of the many ingenious ways that the poorest of the poor have taken control
of their lives by bypassing the very institutions that have been put in
place to rescue them. He touchingly narrates to us about how these
deprived peoples have found their own homegrown solutions to their
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