| Description |
x, 262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Innocent abroad -- A bird on the outside, a tiger within -- Context matters -- Basket economics and political realities -- The blue bakery -- Dancing in the dark -- Traveling without a road map -- A new learning curve -- Blue paint on the road -- Retribution and resurrection -- The cost of silence -- Institutions matter -- The education of a patient capitalist -- Building brick by brick -- Taking it to scale -- The world we dream, the future we create together. |
| Summary |
The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession, until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. That the sweater had made its trek all the way to Rwanda was ample evidence, she thought, of how we are all connected, how our actions--and inaction--touch people every day across the globe, people we may never know or meet. More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweater is a call to action that challenges us to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink our engagement with the world. |
| Subject |
Poverty.
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Economic assistance.
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Charities.
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Microfinance.
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| ISBN |
9781594869150 hardcover |
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1594869154 hardcover |
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