If the traditional aid model is ineffective, what kind of charity would help the poor? This section focuses on the entrepreneurial energy of persons living in developing countries. The much-celebrated microfinance movement made for a wonderful beginning to a renewed focus on enterprise solutions to poverty, but real sustainable development also requires a thriving middle class supported by job-creating SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), which play a critical and often overlooked role.
This next video also warns against the temptation to see people as burdens rather than as people who can be inherently creative. If human creativity is the source of wealth, then any attempt to control population growth is a suppression of human productivity. This is an impediment to social justice rooted in a false understanding of humanity.