Alexandre Haddad

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There is little doubt that the free market, as now organized, does not provide solutions to all social ills. It provides neither economic opportunities nor access to health and education for the poor or the elderly. Even so, I believe that government, as we now know it, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement, the justice system, national defense, and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a “Grameenized private sector,” a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over its other functions.
Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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