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Paul Polak is founder of Colorado-based non-profits International Development enterprises (IDe) and D-Rev: Design for the Other 90% For the past 25 years, Paul has worked with thousands of farmers in countries around the world'including Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, ethiopia, Maynmar, Nepal, vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe'to help design and produce low-cost, income generating products that have already moved 17 million people out of poverty. Before establishing IDE in 1981, Paul practiced psychiatry for 23 years in Colorado. to better understand the environments influencing his patients, Paul would visit their homes and workplaces. After a trip he made to Bangladesh, he was inspired to use the skills he had honed while working with homeless veterans and mentally ill patients in Denver to serve the 800 million people living on a dollar a day around the world. employing the same tactics he pioneered as a psychiatrist, Paul spent time 'walking with farmers through their one-acre farms and enjoying a cup of tea with their families, sitting on a stool in front of their thatched-roof mud-and-wattle homes.'
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    • Out of Poverty

    • What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
    • By: Paul Polak
    • Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-2012
    • Language: English
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