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“Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on. All that is required to get poor people out of poverty is for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor are allowed to unleash their energy and creativity, poverty [...]

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“When Ana Maria’s parents were young, she says, the forest easily fed them, even though the Zapara were then one of the largest tribes of the Amazon. With some 200000 members living in villages along all the neighbouring rivers. Then something happened far away… and nothing in their world – or anybody’s – was ever [...]

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