need it the most. Okay. So, self-compassion um basically that to sum up what compassion is and technically compassion is defined as concern with the alleviation of suffering. And that's the same with self-compassion as well. It means we are actively concerned with our own suffering and we say what do I need in the moment? And then we try to
There are about 5,000 known species of jumping spiders. That's a conservation and poverty alleviation program in Madagascar.
are things that I believe a business just should do. What a low-cost poverty alleviation tool.
And the keywords around brownies are "more than I care to spend." But some keywords around social entrepreneurship, mission, open hiring, alleviation of poverty, are more available to me. So there's a lot of interest on my part and I think around what Google can provide around, how do I market that?
But we're just beginning to see Chinese domestic environmental NGOs trying to hold Chinese firms to count when they go abroad. But different pieces of the resource dynamic can be more or less about poverty alleviation , broad-based growth versus return to the top.
So, it started with sophomore slump and I discovered microfinance in a class. And what I loved about microfinance was it was a business approach to poverty alleviation and Iím a huge believer in the markets. I just donít think the markets always work for the poor.
in medicine and tech and um vaccines go through AB test and so on but it was very uncommon uh in the field that I worked which was development or the field of poverty alleviation and it wasn't really until the early 2000s that people actually tried to test what worked and what didn't work in a
And we have a very short .. So he is a professor from Chinese Agricultural University and one of the leaders in poverty alleviation in China.
Read and sing? Do a little bit of both? OK. I want to alleviate you of whatever needs alleviation . I don't actually play the ukulele, a fact of which I am proud.
And last fall we started-- or actually, last November-- we started thinking about how we can bring Googlers together around causes in thematic areas of social interest. And we launched the first hunger campaign, hunger and poverty alleviation , in November of last year. It brought together about 6,000 Googlers via a quiz about learning about the issues around hunger and then giving and volunteering opportunities around the world.
But because we have so much experience being compassionate to others, actually, once you figure it out, it's not very hard. You actually can't, by definition, because compassion is concerned with the alleviation of suffering.
about why this book. So Dean, Dean told you a little bit about what is in this book, and I want to say why we saw fit to write it. So, that sort of brings the focus back to us here as, as donors, as practitioners, people who are engaged with the issues of poverty and poverty alleviation , and, and what's the sort of situation that we face. Well, a lot of us face a flood of information from charities and from development organizations to, to just try to grab our attention and to eventually try to grab our money. And the, the problem
So diseases like HIV and AIDS, global warming, issues of global warming, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, they don't know any borders. And these are all gonna be poverty, poverty alleviation , none of this knows any borders and the way we're gonna be able to make the world a better place in the 21st century is if we communicate solutions.