Financing The War on

Poverty
Created by
Brad Swain
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Method Together

The poverty of our century is

unlike that of any other.  It is
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Nations Do It
not, as poverty was before,
the result of natural scarcity, Does it
work?
but of a set of priorities
imposed upon the rest of the
world by the rich.
- John Berger
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Individuals Gave
$199.1 billion in 2005.
Corporations donated
about 1/10th as much

Giving
Religious organizations
received the most
support. The next
largest sector was
education Total giving to
charitable organizations
increased to $260.3
billion in 2005

About 14% of money

given Is not seen by
the beneficiaries.
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“If the misery of the poor be

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caused not by the laws of Does it
nature, but by our work?
institutions, great is our
sin.” 
- Charles Darwin

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Tanzania: Zanzibar Basic Education Improvement Project

IDA CREDIT: US$42 million

TERMS: Maturity = 40 years; Grace Period = 10 years
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The objectives of the project are to improve
completion on lower secondary education in Zanzibar including achieving
better examination results. This will be facilitated through construction of
secondary schools, laboratories and facilities for teacher training, by
providing in-service mathematics and science training to teachers, and
making text books in core subjects available to all primary secondary
schools in Zanzibar.

The World
Bank
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IBRD and IDA Lending
New Approvals in Fiscal 2005 by Region
Share of Total Lending of $22.3 billion
Africa $3.9
South Asia billion 17%
$5 billion
22%

East Asia and

Middle East and
Pacific $2.9
North Africa $1.3
billion 13%
billion 6%

Latin America
and the Europe and
Caribbean $5.2 Central Asia
billion 24% $4.1 billion 18%
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The Way You can't get rid of poverty by

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giving people money.  work?
- P.J. O'Rourke,

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2005
2004
“The Year of the Micro Loan”

Microfina 1875.5%
Increase

nce 124%
Increase
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Method Together

“You can give a man a fish and

The Way
Nations Do It feed him for a day. But teach Does it
a man to fish and you feed work?
him for life.”

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Location: Kabul , Afghanistan

Activity: Machine Shop

Loan Amount: $1,025.00

Loan Use: To buy extra materials for the shop.

Repayment Term: 8 - 12 months

Status: Raising Funds

Partner Rep: Manizha Waissi

Mohammad Smail is 35 years old. He lives in a household of four in District 6

of Kabul, Afghanistan. He is married. He is a car mechanic but he is working
in another shop. He has six years of experience and now he wants to borrow
a loan to take a shop and buy all the materials for a shop to work on it. He is
the supporter of his family. He wants to help his family and join his children
in school to study. He wants to work hard and be a good business dealer and
good mechanic of cars. Now he is very happy with this loan of AFSG.
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Lenders to this business

Emily\s Family Brook and Cliff the wetheringtons Bradley

Santa Barbara, CA Birmingham, AL from, Michigan Wakefield, Rhode Island
United States United States United States United States

More businesses in need

Subhan Suleymanov Samuel Mamani

Retail, Azerbaijan Retail, Bolivia

50% Raised 75% Raised

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It would be nice if the poor

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Nations Do It were to get even half of the Does it
money that is spent in work?

studying them. 
- Bill Vaughan

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Portfolio at Risk Portfolio at Risk Loan Loss
> 30 Days > 90 Days Rate
Age
New 2.39 1.18 1.14
Young 3.86 1.99 2.41
Mature 5.01 3 3.28
Region
Africa 7.71 4.25 3.52
Asia 5.25 3.46 4.41
ECA 1.66 0.83 1.3
LAC 4.12 2.12 2.28
MENA 1.77 0.98 1.55
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“Poverty is everyone's problem. It

The Way cuts across any line you can
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geographic or religious. work?
Whether you are black or white;
rich, middle-class or poor, we are
ALL touched by poverty.’
- Kathleen Blanco

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Working Together
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Method Together

“Give a man a fish;who

“Anyone you has
havestruggled
fed him for today. 
Teach
The Way a man to fish; and you have fed him for a
with poverty knows how Does it
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lifetime.  Teach a man
extremely to sell fish
expensive and
it is to he eats
work?
steak.”
be poor.”
--James A. Baldwin
- Unknown

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