Entrepreneurship: One Answer to Poverty

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

In his State of the Union address President Barack Obama placed a spotlight on global poverty and the 1.2 billion people on the planet who stay alive on around $1 per day.

“Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all,” the president said.

“So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades: by connecting more people to the global economy and empowering women; by giving our young and brightest minds new opportunities to serve and helping communities to feed, power, and educate themselves; by saving the world’s children from preventable deaths; and by realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation.”

Source: Huffington Post (link opens in a new window)

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