Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time

Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time

Want to end poverty for good? Entrepreneur and Samasource founder Leila Janah has the solutionâ€”give work, not aid.
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â€œAn audacious, inspiring, and practical book. Leila shows how itâ€™s possible to build a successful business that lifts people out of povertyâ€”not by giving them money but by giving them work. Itâ€™s required reading for anyone whoâ€™s passionate about solving real problems.â€ â€”Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Originals
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Despite trillions of dollars in Western aid, 2.8 billion people worldwide still struggle in abject poverty. Yet the worldâ€™s richest countries continue to send moneyâ€”mostly to governmentsâ€”targeting the symptoms, rather than the root causes of poverty. We need a better solution.

In Give Work, Leila JanahÂ offers a much-neededÂ solution to solving poverty: incentivize everyone from entrepreneurs to big companies to give dignified, steady, fair-wage work to low-income people. Her social business, Samasource, connects people living below the poverty lineâ€”on roughly $2 a dayâ€”to digital work for major tech companies. To date, the organization has provided over $10 million in direct income to tens of thousands of people the world had written off, dramatically altering the trajectory of entire communities for the better.

Janah and her team go into the worldâ€™s poorest regionsâ€”from refugee camps in Kenya to the Mississippi Delta in Arkansasâ€”and train people to do digital work for companies like Google, Walmart, and Microsoft. Janah has tested variousÂ Give WorkÂ business models in all cornersÂ of the world. She shares poignant stories ofÂ people who have benefited from Samasourceâ€™sÂ work, where and why it hasnâ€™t worked, and offers a blueprint to fight poverty with an evidence-based, economically sustainable model.

We can end extreme poverty in our lifetimes. Give work, and you give the poorest people on the planet a chance at happiness. Give work, and you give people the freedom to choose how to develop their own communities. Give work, and you create infinite possibilities.
Country USA
Brand Portfolio
Manufacturer Portfolio
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780735211896
Color White
ReleaseDate 2017-09-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780735211896

Country	USA
Brand	Portfolio
Manufacturer	Portfolio
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780735211896
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2017-09-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780735211896

Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time

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