A friend of GBSN, Martín Burt of Fundación Paraguaya, was featured in a recent Huffington Post article by Elisabeth Rhyne entitled "Measure? Alleviate? No, Eliminate Poverty". Fundación Paraguaya is a leading edge social enterprise that seeks to develop innovative solutions to poverty and unemployment and proactively disseminate them throughout the world.
"While academics from prestigious East Coast universities are developing randomized trials to test the impact of microfinance on poverty - and coming up only with modest-sounding results, Martín Burt, the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , is making a bold leap. Not content to measure poverty impact, or even to alleviate poverty, Burt thinks he can get every Fundación Paraguaya client out of poverty. His secret? Tapping the energy of the clients themselves."
