1. Outside Africa there a more poor people than inside. There is a lot to be learned from what is happening outside Africa to get out of poverty.

2. In India there are NGO’s who apply village integrated approaches fairly succesful. Sachs has visited them lately and seemed to be impressed (after all they do it for many years between 5 and 20 years of experience they have) as they are succesful in ‘ delivering’ economically sustainable villages (long before the EndOfPoverty book was written).

check them out:

www.assist-india.org (about 370 villages)

www.byrrajufoundation.org (about 180 villages)

3. In the end it’s all about us not spreading wealth through proportional profits in a value chain (a. in other words the West takes too much for themselves and b. the poor’s productivity levels are far too low to make the self reliant and we are not helping them enough to catch up with us).