The Guardian (UK): Only job-creating businesses can really make poverty history
By Kurt Hoffman
Monday June 6, 2005
On the face of it, making poverty history seems a straightforward task. Virtually everyone, including the poor in Africa, lives in a cash economy. With cash, you can access food, clothing, shelter, health care and education.
So creating millions of new jobs should be at the very heart of the efforts of the international community’s endeavours, because this is the only thing that offers poor people a chance to escape poverty permanently.
Hopefully Tony Blair and Gordon Brown will be successful in winning agreement from G8 countries on aid, trade and debt.