Out of Poverty Quotes

“Many organizations have donated village hand pumps to provide clean drinking water to village families, only to return two years later to find that 80 percent of them were not working—because nobody had assumed ownership, so when the pumps broke, nobody fixed them.”
― Paul Polak, Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail

“Identifying niches and filling them is the bread and butter of the regular interplay between markets and entrepreneurs.”
― Paul Polak, Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail