Paul Polak's Out of Poverty Talk
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- Slide 1: OUT OF POVERTY Paul Polak
- Slide 2: Roughly 200 million people in the US have hemorrhoids
- Slide 3: Men talk 16% more on cellphones than women do
- Slide 4: Men talk 16% more on cellphones than women do
- Slide 5: We know just about everything there is to know about affluent customers
- Slide 6: But we know just about nothing about 90% of the customers in the world
- Slide 12: 800 million of the world’s 1.2 billion dollar-a-day people earn their living from tiny farms!
- Slide 16: Small Farms Are Very Big! Of the word’s 525 million farms, 85% are less than 5 acres Average farm size in Africa is 4 acres
- Slide 18: Small Farmer Prosperity is the Key to Ending Rural Poverty
- Slide 21: With Business as Usual… The Millennium Goals on hunger and poverty will never be reached!
- Slide 22: Millennium Development Goal Progress in Sub Saharan Africa 50.00% 44.60% 44.00% 45.00% 40.00% 35.00% 30.00% 25.00% 20.00% 15.00% 10.00% 5.00% 0.00% Percentage of people in Sub-Saharan Percentage of people in Sub-Saharan Africa living on $1 a day, 1990 Africa living on $1 a day, 2002
- Slide 23: The Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths 1. We can donate people out of poverty 2. We can end poverty through national economic growth 3. Multinationals as they are now will end poverty
- Slide 24: Example: Treadle Pumps
- Slide 25: Treadle Pump Private Sector Supply Chain in Bangladesh 75 private sector manufacturers 3,000 village dealers 3-4,000 village technicians
- Slide 26: A Village Dealer in Bangladesh
- Slide 29: Village Marketing in Bangladesh
- Slide 31: Treadle Pump Impacts 2.1 million poor families in Asia and Africa invested $50 million+ in treadle pumps, increasing their net income by $210 million/yr forever!
- Slide 32: IDE 550 staff in nine developing countries 17 million dollar a day people moved out of poverty over 25 years mission- 150 million more move out of poverty 2025
- Slide 33: IDE’s Impact Over 25 Years 350 300 $288 250 US Dollars (millions) 200 150 $139 100 $78 50 0 Total IDE Costs 3 yr Investment by Dollar-a-Day Increase in Net Annual Income for farmers Dollar-a-Day Farmers
- Slide 34: 12 STEPS FOR PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING 1. Go to where the action is 2. Talk to the people who have the problem- listen to what they have to say 3. Learn everything there is to know about the specific context
- Slide 38: 12 Practical Steps (Cont’d) 4. Think and act big 5. Think like a child 6. See and do the obvious
- Slide 39: Practical Steps (Cont’d) 7. If somebody already invented it you don’t have to 8. Design to critical price targets 9. Design for measurable improvement in the lives of more than a million people
- Slide 40: Practical Steps (Cont’d) 10. Work to practical three year plans 11. Keep learning from your customers 12. Stay positive: don’t be distracted by what other people think
- Slide 41: D-Rev A non-profit fomenting a design revolution to reach the Other 90%
- Slide 42: David Klaus, Intern IDE | Myanmar
- Slide 43: Windhorse International A for-profit company fomenting a revolution in how big business designs, prices and markets its products By earning remarkable profits by serving the world’s poorest customers
- Slide 47: All it Takes is One Person With a Dream
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