Ending global poverty : a guide to what works / Stephen C. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-250) and indexes.

t. I: Extreme poverty, the cruelest trap. Understanding extreme poverty : poverty traps and the experience of the poor -- The keys to capability : eight keys to escaping poverty traps -- pt. II: Escaping the poverty trap : how the poor are gaining the keys to capability. Health, nutrition, and population -- Basic education -- Credit for poverty reduction, and insuring opportunity -- Bottom-up market development : assets and access for the poor -- Entitlement to new technologies and the capability to benefit from them -- Sustaining the environment for ending poverty -- Social inclusion and human rights for the poor and voiceless -- Community empowerment and development -- Ten strategies for innovation in ending global poverty -- pt. III: What you can do to help. First steps -- Further questions -- Stepping up -- What businesses can do -- Some closing words : the end of global poverty.