Products for people making 2 dollars a day

Think about it for just a second. If you could sell something, whatever that is, to most of the world's poor people, you'd end up with a lot of customers. That may sound counterintuitive, right? After all, we're talking about individuals making 2 dollars or less per day. Nonetheless, Dr. Paul Polak happens to differ:

“A billion customers in the world,” Dr. Paul Polak told a crowd of inventors recently, “are waiting for a $2 pair of eyeglasses, a $10 solar lantern and a $100 house.”

The world’s cleverest designers, said Dr. Polak, a former psychiatrist who now runs an organization helping poor farmers become entrepreneurs, cater to the globe’s richest 10 percent, creating items like wine labels, couture and Maseratis.

“We need a revolution to reverse that silly ratio,” he said.

To that end, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, which is housed in Andrew Carnegie’s 64-room mansion on Fifth Avenue and offers a $250 red chrome piggy bank in its gift shop, is honoring inventors dedicated to “the other 90 percent,” particularly the billions of people living on less than $2 a day.

He's absolutely right! If you could help reducing world's poverty, and make some bucks along the way, wouldn't you? Follow this link to the complete story.