Here is an upbeat story from Kenya, it is the one I wanted to share with you before Arizona went crazy. By selling water pumps to Kenyan farmers, Kickstart helps them increase their crop yields and lift themselves out of poverty.
Maurice Lim Miller is a frontline worker in the campaign to bring economic justice to America. You won't find Maurice at academic conferences or on book tours. He treats poverty not so much as a crusade, but as a puzzle to be solved.
Surely when she meets with her accountant, she realizes that the so-called hostile, intrusive and anti-business policies of California did not stop eBay from making her a rich woman.
Preachy rhetoric about free markets and globalization often overlooks the on-the-ground work that is needed to actually make markets work. Imaginary markets have failed the poor.
Thousands of social entrepreneurs are the living embodiment of Robert Kennedy's truth, steadfastly "commit[ing] their minds and bodies to the task" of a fairer world. Among them, Robert Patillo is an über-social entrepreneur.
