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The Poor Will Be Glad: Joining the Revolution to Lift the World Out of Poverty
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Item Description...
A compelling call to carry God's mercy and compassion to the hurting people of this world
This eminently practical book by two leading experts in the field of poverty reduction offers a clear plan to help ordinary Christians translate their compassion into thoughtful action.
Authors Peter Greer and Phil Smith draw on their personal experiences to provide proven solutions for effectively reducing poverty. With photographs by Jeremy Cowart included throughout, The Poor Will Be Glad examines the pitfalls of traditional approaches and outlines a new model of economic development aimed at breaking the cycle of dependency.
Through microfinance and employment-based solutions, people who share God's heart for the poor can reorient their efforts from giving handouts to offering a hand up, helping others provide for their families and regain their dignity. This book provides straightforward guidance for individuals and groups eager to carry God's justice, mercy, and compassion to the hurting people in our world.
About the Author
Peter Greer is President of HOPE International, a global non-profit organization focused on alleviating both physical and spiritual poverty through microenterprise development. Peter also co-founded the Hope Global Investment Fund and serves as its executive director.
Peter was formerly employed by World Relief, serving as a microfinance advisor in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and director of URWEGO Community Banking in Rwanda.
Peter received his undergraduate education in International Business from Messiah College, completed a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School and participated in executive education at Harvard Business School.
Peter resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his wife, Laurel, and three children.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 279
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 6.25" Height: 8.5"
Weight: 1.55 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Nov 1, 2009
Publisher Zondervan Publishing
Age 18
ISBN 0310293596
EAN 9780310293590
UPC 025986293598
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 | Best Book! Apr 3, 2010 |
| I must say this book is excellent and practical and electrifying! It fanned my fire and has given me so much to share with others- to encourage the revolution to lift people out of poverty- simply and effectively. There is so much we can do, so simply, because of all the others who have gone before us. Peter & Phil show us how to get involved. Opportunity is Responsibility. The opportunity is there and they show it so clearly. Thanks, Guys! | | | | A Solution to Ending Poverty Feb 10, 2010 |
Greer & Smith present an insightful look at the world of micro finance in this easy-to-read book. They begin with a look at the poor. Who they are and how many of them live in the world today. I especially appreciated how they contrast the poor in America compared to the poor in a third world country. A poor person by American standards lives like a king compared to the vast majority of the poor in third world countries that live on less than $4 per day.
Being in the financial business, I thought I knew something about microfinance. I was surprised to learn how much I didn't know and how much of what I thought I knew was based on inaccurate information. The writers attribute the success of most micro loans to the close knit community that forms between the members that participate in micro finance. The members support and encourage one another to make sure that everyone succeeds in their venture. The businesses that are forms benefit the entire community. Not only do micro finance institutions provide money in the form of loans, they also provide coaching, education, health insurance and many other benefits to the people they serve.
I believe the most important message that I took away from this book was that the poor want a "hand up" not a "hand out". Give a man a fish and he eats for a day is the "hand out". The next day the man is hungry again. Greer and Smith give example after example of well meaning efforts to help the poor through hand outs that brought only temporary relief. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a life time is what micro finance is attempting to accomplish. Providing small loans to help someone start a business or expand an existing business helps the person feed themselves for a life time. In many cases, these small businesses expand and provide jobs for others so the employees can feed their families. It would be hard to read this book and not conclude that micro finance is the right way to eliminate poverty.
-- Rick Rodgers, CFP®, author of The New Three-Legged Stool: A Tax Efficient Approach to Retirement Planning | | | | Join the Revolution Jan 4, 2010 |
So have you thought about the poor today at all? I know for me, I woke up this morning in my warm bed with multiple layers of blankets. I pulled my vehicle out of my 2-car garage and headed to a local restaurant to meet with a friend to have a hot breakfast that I have the monies to pay for. ...and I'll eat lunch and dinner too along with probably a couple of snacks. It's cold outside so I turn up the heat in the house, and I put on a warm coat before heading outside. Well, you get the picture... That's a quick snapshot of my day, and to be honest, I didn't give too much thought to "the poor."
I just finished reading "The Poor Will Be Glad" - joining the Revolution to lift the World out of Poverty. It's a book that is well written and has some great photographs to help us visual people see a glimpse of another world other than the suburban USA that I live in. The book gives a clear explanation through the expertise of Peter Greer and Phil Smith of micro-finance. "Micro-finance" seems like a big word although starting with the prefix micro. This is not a economics book but a book of stories. Stories of real people, like you and me, just living in the poorest places in the world. It's the stories that makes this book a easy, and engaging book that explains how we as individuals, or we as the church can make a difference in the Revolution to lift the World out of poverty.
A must read book, and join the Revolution...the poor will be glad!
| | | | Amazing Book with Specific Suggestions on Addressing Poverty Dec 30, 2009 |
This is an amazing book. The subtitle is "Joining the revolution to lift the world out of poverty," and the authors give great detail on how to do that.
And that is what is most exciting about this book. Often when we talk about poverty, illness, the lack of education and other issues plaguing so many in the 3rd World, our hands seem somewhat shackled, or we feel that this is not much we can do as individuals. Not so with this book. It's hands-on, and an in-depth look at how charitable giving can be used in more effective ways for those in need, remembering the adage that there is a significant difference between handing out fish for free and showing someone how to use bait and tackle.
And that difference is seen in micro-finance. Green and Smith look at the ways small businesses can flourish with the added injection of a little capital-and they do mean a little, loans from $50 to $1,000. They tell real stories, like a man who runs a small pharmacy who needed to close multiple times a day to run out a get more supplies because he had only enough money to buy a few things. With a small loan, he could buy more supplies for a cheaper price, cut down his traveling to once a week, and keep his store open for longer hours. He easily paid back his loan and expanded his business.
Green and Smith also focus on the spiritual impact these programs can have. These run the gamut from being explicit about faith in the weekly or bi-weekly repayment meetings in the community (community building is central to all micro-finance programs, Christian or not), to living out a faith through business practices and care. More often than not--and the authors greatly suggest this--micro-finance opportunities and others like them (like the nifty Rotating Savings and Credit Associations) rely on local churches to assist in being an active part of the community. This is another strong focus of the book, that local administrators of these programs are far better than a Westerner coming in with "American know-how" to solve problems that might not exist.
And the key to all of this is building relationships. By listening to local leaders, we can understand what the greatest need might be, where the greatest interest might lie, and how help can be offered, not in the form of handouts, but in assistance that leads to self-sufficiancy.
The authors list a number of places where individuals can help, either by providing capital for such loans to using their gifts and skills from their work lives, devoting about 100 pages in their book to Part III: Joining the Revolution.
A must read for anyone who desires to do something about alleviating poverty from a Christian perspective, and a great resource on the ins and outs of micro-finance for the everyday reader. | | | | A great read Dec 12, 2009 |
This is a great book and a timely read for the Christmas season. Greer and Smith powerfully combine economic insight with personal experience to make a strong case for microfinance. The authors acknowledge the limits of microfinance both in what it can and cannot achieve.
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