Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

One of the significant social impacts of the microcredit movement has been the realization that the key to alleviating poverty is often not the creation of "jobs" -- that is, salaried work for large corporate employers -- but rather the encouragement of self-employment for all individuals, particularly women.

— Mohammad Yunis, Creating a World Without Poverty

Comments

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

yes indeed

I( stayed in the public service for years on my mothers's threat/prediction "you'll never get another job". In the end I left to become another student, and guess what - so far she was right!

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Yes. That is, let's not define "jobs" as "paid occupations supplied only by corporate entities" (large or small).