It is hard to believe that it took a humanist composer to point out the weaknesses and flaws in the modern methods typically used to counteract poverty. Peter Buffet created an uproar when he famously coined a term in a New York Times article -- "the charitable industrial complex" -- and declared, "we need a new approach" to our loosing battle against global poverty.
While I disagree with Buffet's conclusions, it is time to rethink how we seek to help the least of these, now numbering about 2 billion of our neighbors.
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