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Minimum wage – good or bad for business?
The questions around the minimum wage are always going to create a heated discussion and in my opinion is just another way for governments and usually socialist style governments to control the economy and turn things in to a nanny state! What is a minimum wage? The minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly wage that employers may legally pay to their employees. Minimum wage laws also prevent workers from selling their labour at an amount which is lower than the minimum wage level. Those that defend and advocate a minimum wage say that it increases the standard of living of workers and also reduces poverty.
OUR DEBT FREE NATION - OUR DEBT FREE WORLD - OUR FREE MARKET GLOBAL ECONOMIES
With so many people around the world living in ultra poverty, growing unemployment, hunger on the rise in so many countries, people online trying to make livings-having little success at pulling in the wanted currency, everyone trying hard and seeking yet not finding the capital they need, why don't we open up and have a truly free market for awhile. Some online sites already do this like the FREECYCLE networks around the country, lets move on and SHARE THE WEALTH that exists on EARTH already.
Lesson #4: Lose No Time
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” Franklin once said. He went on to pose the question, “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
Lesson #5: Communicate Success
“My management style is based on the art of communication,” said Johnson. “For communication is an art, not a science. It is an emotion, not a statistic.”

Russell Simmons Quotes
Russell Simmons Quotes
Lesson #1: Plan for the Worst to Reduce the Risk of Risk
Entrepreneurs, by definition, are risk-takers, people willing to strike out on their own in order to seize an opportunity and make a profit. But, for Li Ka-shing, the richest man of Chinese descent, risk should not be a part of the equation. Li is a self-proclaimed risk-averse entrepreneur and goes to any and all lengths to reduce the risks inherent in his actions. It was in planning for the worst case scenario and learning to expect the unexpected that Li managed to succeed where others before him had not.
The Pursuit of Happiness: Gardner’s Climb to the Top
“One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success,” says Gardner. “The secret is there is no secret. It’s the basics. Blocking and tackling.” Gardner has gone from homeless to Hollywood, rising from the depths and despair of poverty to become not only a millionaire stockbroker and successful entrepreneur and author, but also the star of a major motion picture. How did he do it?
Li Ka Shing Quotes
Li Ka Shing Quotes
Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Andrew Carnegie Quotes
As Seen On TV: Popeil Goes From Poverty to Prime Time
Popeil now split his time evenly between working for his father and working for himself, selling goods on Maxwell Street. It did not matter what he was selling – shoeshine spray, plastic plant kits – Popeil just wanted to sell. “Through selling I could escape from poverty and the miserable existence I had with my grandparents,” he says. “I didn’t have to be poor the rest of my life.”
Ron Popeil Quotes
Ron Popeil Quotes
Carlos Slim Helu Quotes
Carlos Slim Helu Quotes
Overcoming Fear
Fear has been correctly identified with the acrostic False Evidence Appearing Real. The truth is that if we think something is to be feared, that perception becomes the cruelest form of reality.
Your Future
Many years ago as a young, aspiring speaker, I heard an older speaker who was quite philosophical say that you are where you are because that's exactly where you want to be. I thought about his statement, decided it was the "wisdom of the ages" and verbalized it in my own presentations. Over a period of time, a series of events took place that convinced me that his statement was not true in my case. I was broke, in debt and down in the dumps. I wanted to be prosperous and excited about my future. It came through loud and clear that I was where I was and what I was because of the decisions and choices I had made in my life.

The Formula that Changes EVERYTHING
It seems that everywhere you turn these days, you hear people talking about the economy.

The Magic Formula to Better Results: It's Your Response that Counts
In today's economic times, when everywhere you look there’s a rumbling of great uncertainty, I think we should all take a pause (and a deep breath) to think about our lives.

Abject Executive Poverty
If you, as an executive are not happy, then you might want to read my story of round trip rags to riches. I, as an executive, was not happy either with all that "stuff" that money could buy. There was an emptiness that expensive suits, business class travel, and four or five star hotels could not fill. Yet, as an aftermath of Global Financial Crisis that cost my tiny company $180,000, I realized what real happiness was all about.

Why You Are Who You Are
The main reason why you are who you are is YOU. No matter how you became who you are or gotten where you are, staying there is your own choice, your own decision. Leaders were not born successful; instead they set a goal for themselves accompanied by a course of actions that is focused, enduring and persist long after their goal attainment. How could you claim of being in charge financially, professionally, and socially when aspirations and basic enjoyment of life remains exclusively restricted to the fantasies of TV drama and shadowy darkness of dreams................
Thriving And Not Just Surviving Is The Key To Growth In Network Marketing
As a society and a culture we are programmed to survive. Not to thrive. For growth in network marketing this applies as much as anything. It’s all in your head.
Another spin on Value Propositions
Quite often the inspiration for a great sales idea comes from a source way outside our industry or normal frame of reference. What follows is a story about a really creative value proposition. How can you use its message for your own business?
People rarely buy what they need if you can sell them what they really want
In parts of poverty stricken African it's a very different story; people buy and barter in exchange for what they need to survive on a daily basis.

Where are YOU a Slumdog?
Reflecting on the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," this article outlines five steps to conquering obstacles.

Beliefs: The Software of the Mind
The mind is the most powerful bio computer known to man. The software we run on it determines everything. Our beliefs and belief systems run like programs of the mind. Preventing us from accomplishing what we want or propelling us to new heights of achievement. Change your mental software when you change your beliefs. Learn how in beliefs the software of the mind.

Understanding the Propose of Your Business
And just like building a strong house, creating the business/career (or life for that matter) that you love all starts with having a solid foundation: where that cornerstone is placed. Why do you have your business? What is it you want to ultimately achieve with it? Beyond the fame and fortune. What is it that really gets you excited and out of bed in the morning? Discovering the purpose of your business can be simple… and not so simple! It requires you to really delve deeply into the core of what it is you are all about… as an entrepreneur/intrapreneur as well as a human being. Recently I have been promoting and working with clients building their Sustainability Blueprints.

How to Think Your Way to Success: The Science of Results Oriented Thinking
Learning to think “to be successful,” means learning to think in a different way. In the science of results oriented thinking we learn that thinking is the most powerful tool available to you to help you succeed and create your life with. It is the inventor of all ideas, all riches, all wealth and can even turn a Doctors death sentence into a miraculous recovery.
Why Women Need to Plan for their Retirement
As women, we are likely to outlive our spouses or partners by an average of 5 years. Although this may seem financially insignificant when planning for a 20 to 25 year retirement, it could potentially be our most expensive years.
Anger and Gratitude Don't Mix
Living a life of gratitude requires one simple but profound change (that can really only happen at midlife): relinquishing anger. How's your track record?
Prosperity
“The volume of your life shows the degree of your conviction.” Randy Ek
Handling Challenges Productively
General guidelines for handling difficulties, challenges, or problems. 1) Maintain a positive attitude 2) Use productive communication skills 3) Deal with causes, not symptoms 4) Avoid arguments 5) Accept responsibility 6) Focus on behavior or results
Doing Whatever It Takes For Success
Many times when a person has not achieved a desired goal, it is simply because they were not clear on their outcome or were not willing to do whatever it took to achieve it. When you have a blueprint for success, it becomes much easier to realize your end result. The following article gives you an outline of the necessary steps for achieving your goals.

5 More Keys to Feel Abundant-and Attract Wealth
Looking at outside circumstances and solutions is one aspect of creating wealth. But don't overlook working from the inside-out. Without that, wealth can be fleeting, superficial, and unfulfilling. Find out how to achieve lasting prosperity now.
Exactly What the Heck is POWER?
I’ve been doing a lot of media interviews over the past few weeks and one question keeps coming up: What, exactly, is Power? Power is one of those words people use quite a bit without having a clear, functional definition...
Converting Challenge and Adversity to Your Advantage
Want a shortcut to success? Model yourself in the image of those who have proved to themselves repeatedly to surpass and exemplify success. I learned that the successful are just ordinary people like you and I, although there is there are a few things that make them different - 1) their mindset; and 2) their knowledge. From this power platform they make non emotional and extraordinary decisions in their lives.
How To Use "Law Of Attraction" For Your "Business From Home"
The law of attraction states that like attracts like. All things, people and circumstances in your life were – to a degree - attracted to you by your way of thinking. No matter if we are talking about bad things or good things. It works for both.
Grameen Bank - Alternative Microfinance Approaches
Grameen Bank operates on the premise that the poor remain poor not because they do not have the skills or do not work hard, but because the institutions created around them keep them poor.
Improving Microfinance as an Anti-Poverty Tool
As Father Joseph Philippe, the co-founder of the Haitian MFI Fonkoze, states: “You can’t just give a woman a loan and then send her on her way - you have to accompany her as she struggles to make her way out of poverty.”
Overview of Microfinance
Because the term microfinance is used in many different contexts, it can sometimes be oversimplified and viewed in a skewed or narrow perspective.
Achieving Financial Stability
Marie Francois' story - Haiti

Borrower Becomes Lender, Helps Others
Adela Hualuque, El Alto Branch Office - ProMujer Bolivia

5.10 Social protection: Working Out of Poverty
The impact of poor health, particularly HIV/AIDS, on employment and incomes and the policy priorities.
4.3 Informal labour markets: Working Out of Poverty
A strategy for improving governance
4.1 Institutions, markets and development: Working Out of Poverty
One of the leading thinkers about the importance of institutions and rules to making markets work for development, Nobel laureate Professor Douglass North, has explained that societies evolve institutions to “reduce uncertainty by providing a structure to everyday life”. He argues that this is essential to organizing the productive division of labour and that “institutions affect the performance of the economy by their effect on the costs of exchange and production”. He also stresses that many of the rules guiding daily behaviour are informal and that effective institutions for governing markets are a blend of socially accepted norms and laws underpinned by shared values.
1.18 Building bridges: Working Out of Poverty
The majority of people in developing countries live and work in the back alleys of the marketplace, the informal economy, the rural subsistence economy and the care economy.This presents a major challenge.
1.8 Making money work for poverty reduction: Working Out of Poverty
It is impossible to build an enterprise without access to credit. Poor people all over the world have little access to formal financial services. Microfinance activities go hand in hand with entrepreneurship, enabling the poor to borrow for productive purposes, save and build their assets. The ILO has advised central banks on the design of laws and regulations for povertyoriented banks. This has been instrumental in creating an enabling environment for pro-poor banks to emerge and prosper, particularly in Africa.
The redistribution of poverty
Governments and social movements the world over often call for the redistribution of wealth; that the people with money and assets should give some of these to the poor. They believe that it is merely the absence of cash that makes poor people poor. They are wrong.
Technology Innovations at Grameen Foundation USA
How will easy, affordable and reliable access for a person in a remote village be provided? When will this person have the ability to make a simple one-minute call, send a complaint to the local government, or make a loan payment without undo cost or travel difficulty? The microfinance industry is answering these questions with technological innovations.

The wider impacts of microfinance
Most MFIs seek to promote the business of their clients and thereby raise client incomes. Some MFIs also invest in services intended to achieve direct social impacts in the form of raising awareness on health, encouraging children's education, promoting women's empowerment within households and so on. MFI achievements on this front have been relatively well-documented.
The wider impacts of microfinance
Most MFIs seek to promote the business of their clients and thereby raise client incomes. Some MFIs also invest in services intended to achieve direct social impacts in the form of raising awareness on health, encouraging children's education, promoting women's empowerment within households and so on. MFI achievements on this front have been relatively well-documented.
The wider impacts of microfinance
Most MFIs seek to promote the business of their clients and thereby raise client incomes. Some MFIs also invest in services intended to achieve direct social impacts in the form of raising awareness on health, encouraging children's education, promoting women's empowerment within households and so on. MFI achievements on this front have been relatively well-documented.
The wider impacts of microfinance
Most MFIs seek to promote the business of their clients and thereby raise client incomes. Some MFIs also invest in services intended to achieve direct social impacts in the form of raising awareness on health, encouraging children's education, promoting women's empowerment within households and so on. MFI achievements on this front have been relatively well-documented.
5.0 Shell Foundation's experience on the ground: Enterprise solutions to poverty
Below we illustrate how the four elements of our approach – financial viability, scaleability, deployment of business DNA and harnessing of corporate value-creating assets – are present in and add value to what we do as a corporate foundation. We draw in detail in the main text on material from our Energise and Breathing Space programmes which address the energy and poverty challenge. We also refer extensively to other activities of ours in the footnotes and in Annex 2.

Other poverty Related Articles

Ending Poverty Consciousness
This article distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness. It gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Policy Reforms
“For successful poverty reduction, African countries have to be in the driver’s seat,” says World Bank Africa Region Vice-President Gobind Nankani. “Africans know best where the shoe pinches. They should craft their own poverty-reduction strategies based on national realities.”

3.0 The case for putting pro-poor enterprise at the heart of the war on poverty: Enterprise solutions to poverty
2005 is set to be a big year for poverty. Doubling aid, making trade fair and dropping Third World debt are the headline goals of a campaign being waged and supported by many official and nongovernmental aid and development organisations determined to make ‘Make Poverty History'.
6.2 Propositions for engaging the international business community: Enterprise solutions to poverty
Our second set of propositions relates to the role of large businesses, especially multinational corporations, in tackling poverty. Our core position is that through harnessing its value-creating assets, big business is especially well-equipped to add enormous value to pro-poor enterprise initiatives – and elsewhere in the war against poverty.
African Countries Focus on Microfinance: Twelve African Nations Engaged in the International Year of Microcredit to Date
Half of the population in Africa lives on less than one dollar a day. More than half the population has no access to safe drinking water. More than two million infants die annually before reaching their first birthday.[1] Such is the harsh reality of the scale of poverty in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals and the objective to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 has driven a number of regional and national initiatives focused on poverty eradication in Africa based on local needs and priorities.

The Role of Microfinance in Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Zambia: The Rainbow Model Provides a Future for AIDS Orphans
Poverty and HIV/AIDS constitute a vicious circle. Poverty creates vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS leads to poverty. Unfortunately, the interventions of the national and international community are not moving as quickly as the desperation and the loss of hope in the people coping with the pandemic at the grassroots level.

2.4 Agricultural workers and rural communities: Working Out of Poverty
A better understanding of the social and economic dynamics of rural communities is critical to the reduction and eradication of poverty. The world’s poorest countries are those most dependent on agriculture. Threequarters of the people in extreme poverty live in rural areas.
2.8 The foundations of a decent work strategy for poverty reduction: Working Out of Poverty
Most analysts of the nature and causes of poverty agree that growth in per capita income is essential to reducing poverty and that persistent growth failures are accompanied by a persistent failure to reduce poverty. However, they have not found a stable relationship between the rate of average per capita growth and the rate of poverty reduction.
3.5 Building local development through cooperatives: Working Out of Poverty
The participation of people living in poverty in policies to improve their livelihood and counteract social exclusion and vulnerability is increasingly emphasized in poverty reduction strategies.
5.6 A coherent framework for national and local action: Working Out of Poverty
Increased in-depth analysis of the multifaceted experience of poverty is leading to a growing awareness of the need for a range of policies that are specific to the problems faced by different communities and countries. Given that the causes of poverty are many and interconnected, targeted policies have most effect when they act in combination to break cycles of poverty. One of the most encouraging aspects of the new approach to poverty reduction and eradication is therefore the emphasis on policy coherence, based on a comprehensive development framework.
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