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Ask for the Impossible

In: The Frugal Innovator

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  • Charles Leadbeater

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Hospitals in India are performing heart and eye operations for a fraction of the cost of their equivalents in the West, and at a higher standard. A network of schools in Kenya has devised a way for children to be taught for $4.50 a month, petty cash to the public system, but it gets better results. About 5 million Mexicans use a primary healthcare service that they access through their mobile phones by paying a subscription of $5 a month. Researchers in Australia have invented a treatment for the most common cause of death among women who have just given birth — a treatment that can be delivered at home, by the woman herself, using a simple oral spray that costs a fraction of the traditional treatment. A city in Asia has worked out a way to provide itself with water by building a system of reservoirs beneath it so no rainwater is wasted, while a city in Central America has developed a way to feed itself by growing food on vacant lots.

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  • Charles Leadbeater, 2014. "Ask for the Impossible," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Frugal Innovator, chapter 0, pages 1-7, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33537-1_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137335371_1
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