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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 problems.
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