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¿Y SI NOS ESTAMOS EQUIVOCANDO EN NUESTRAS PREGUNTAS SOBRE LA POBREZA? Este relato nace de una pregunta que nunca nos hemos planteado: ?quien es dueno de la pobreza? Y describe su respuesta inesperada que cuestiona todo lo que creiamos saber sobre la pobreza y lo que podemos hacer al respecto. Este libro se dirige a gobiernos, organizaciones de desarrollo y agentes de cambio que se sienten frustrados ante los esfuerzos por reducir la pobreza o aliviar sus efectos, y ante la falta de avances en ambos. Este libro celebra el poder de las preguntas audaces y considera lo que sucede cuando ponemos la pobreza en manos de los verdaderos expertos: las familias que viven en pobreza.

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A meditation on poverty that goes profoundly deeper than anyone else has gone. This book will bring major changes in public policy. (EDMUND PHELPS, 2006 NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS; DIRECTOR, CENTER ON CAPITALISM AND SOCIETY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) A new paradigm for effective change. Those entrenched in old funding and program models will find this book irritating. Those whose first commitment is to results rather than legacy models will find it illuminating. Open. Read. And learn from one of the world's most effective influencers. (JOSEPH GRENNY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR OF INFLUENCER AND CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS) Burt weaves a compelling case that... long-neglected perspectives from the South are as important as those from the North. This book should be on every development syllabus, and on the nightstand of everyone working to end poverty. (RICHARD MATTHEW, FACULTY DIRECTOR, BLUM CENTER FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE) Having worked in social development for the past 40 years, I am excited with how Burt defines and simplifies poverty, and places it where it belongs... in the family. (ZANELE MBEKI, SOCIAL WORKER AND FOUNDER, WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT BANKING TRUST (SOUTH AFRICA)) Martin Burt fundamentally reframes the way we think about poverty. A must-read for all people who are fighting for transformational change. (WILLY FOOTE, FOUNDER AND CEO, ROOT CAPITAL (US)) A powerful reminder that good intentions will not solve global poverty. -MARGEE ENSIGN, PRESIDENT, DICKINSON COLLEGE A wonderful account of his personal journey exploring how to make poverty measurement genuinely `owned' by the poor in ways that expand their agency to potentially transform the nature of their interaction with state and market institutions. -MICHAEL WALTON, SENIOR LECTURER IN PUBLIC POLICY, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL

""A meditation on poverty that goes profoundly deeper than anyone else has gone. This book will bring major changes in public policy."" (EDMUND PHELPS, 2006 NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS; DIRECTOR, CENTER ON CAPITALISM AND SOCIETY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) ""A new paradigm for effective change. Those entrenched in old funding and program models will find this book irritating. Those whose first commitment is to results rather than legacy models will find it illuminating. Open. Read. And learn from one of the world's most effective influencers."" (JOSEPH GRENNY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR OF INFLUENCER AND CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS) ""Burt weaves a compelling case that... long-neglected perspectives from the South are as important as those from the North. This book should be on every development syllabus, and on the nightstand of everyone working to end poverty."" (RICHARD MATTHEW, FACULTY DIRECTOR, BLUM CENTER FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE) ""Having worked in social development for the past 40 years, I am excited with how Burt defines and simplifies poverty, and places it where it belongs... in the family."" (ZANELE MBEKI, SOCIAL WORKER AND FOUNDER, WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT BANKING TRUST (SOUTH AFRICA)) ""Martin Burt fundamentally reframes the way we think about poverty. A must-read for all people who are fighting for transformational change."" (WILLY FOOTE, FOUNDER AND CEO, ROOT CAPITAL (US)) ""A powerful reminder that good intentions will not solve global poverty."" -MARGEE ENSIGN, PRESIDENT, DICKINSON COLLEGE ""A wonderful account of his personal journey exploring how to make poverty measurement genuinely `owned' by the poor in ways that expand their agency to potentially transform the nature of their interaction with state and market institutions."" -MICHAEL WALTON, SENIOR LECTURER IN PUBLIC POLICY, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL

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El Dr. Martin Burt es fundador y Director Ejecutivo de la Fundacion Paraguaya, una organizacion sin fines de lucro dedicada a promover el emprendedurismo social y la autosuficiencia economica para eliminar la pobreza en todo el mundo. Es un pionero en la aplicacion de nuevas metricas de pobreza, microfinanzas, microfranquicias, emprendedurismo juvenil, educacion financiera y metodologias de formacion profesional y tecnica en escuelas agricolas autosuficientes. Actualmente el Dr. Burt es miembro del consejo de administracion de la Fundacion Schwab para el Emprendedurismo Social del Foro Economico Mundial, la Red Global de Bancos de Alimentos y Teach A Man To Fish. Es cofundador de la Fundacion Moises Bertoni, Asociacion Paraguaya de la Calidad, Paraguay Educa, Club Universitario de Rugby de Asuncion, Sistema B Paraguay y la Fundacion Mbaracayu. En el servicio publico, se desempeno como Jefe de Gabinete Civil de la Presidencia de Paraguay, fue votado Intendente de Asuncion y nombrado Viceministro de Comercio. El Dr. Burt ha escrito libros sobre economia, desarrollo, gobierno municipal, poesia y educacion. Ha recibido premios de organizaciones como la Fundacion Avina, la Fundacion Skoll, Fundacion Schwab, Synergos, Eisenhower Fellowship, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Cumbre Mundial de Innovacion para la Educacion, y Nestle. Se graduo en la Universidad del Pacifico y en la Universidad George Washington. Tiene un PhD de la Universidad de Tulane, y es Profesor Visitante de Emprendedurismo Social en el Instituto Politecnico de Worcester, y Profesor Visitante Distinguido de la Universidad de California en Irvine.

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