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# Takeaway

1 We believe there is one sure way, and only one way, to foster genuine social change on a large scale among the world’s poverty-stricken billions — by harnessing the power of business to the task.

2 Conventional approaches to end poverty have largely failed, and as Einstein taught us, to continue believing they’ll succeed would be madness.

3 The most obvious, direct, and effective way to combat poverty is to help poor people earn more money.

4 Although a handful of development initiatives have succeeded in improving the livelihoods of as many as 20 million poor people, none has yet reached significant scale.

5 Poor people have to invest their own time and money to move out of poverty.

6 The Don’t Bother Trilogy: ...

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