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Saturday, July 17, 2010
The moneymaker water pump
Also from Michael Kruse's blog: a fascinating report about an engineer who is trying to help poor people in Africa by selling, and not giving away, water pumps.
2 comments:
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Good to see he is selling them, as this generates positive economic externalities in the shape of creating a sales force behind them.
Funny seeing this coming from PBS, though. Thought they would want to see them given away with a donation and a free tote bag telling people you contributed during the phone-a-thon.
Interesting comments in the interview about the value of something bought as opposed to something received as a gift. $100 still sounds like a large amount of money for the average African farmer to find....
2 comments:
Good to see he is selling them, as this generates positive economic externalities in the shape of creating a sales force behind them.
Funny seeing this coming from PBS, though. Thought they would want to see them given away with a donation and a free tote bag telling people you contributed during the phone-a-thon.
Interesting comments in the interview about the value of something bought as opposed to something received as a gift. $100 still sounds like a large amount of money for the average African farmer to find....
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