New York Times article

[Steve Clem <cclem@kent.edu>]

One of the organizations dealing with the fact that more than 1/5 of the
world's population live in extreme poverty is the United Nations
Development Program.  Part of its mission is to help countries achieve
sustainable human development  by assisting them in building a capacity to
carry out development programs in poverty eradication, employment creation
and sustainable livelihoods.

The UNDP supports programs that assist in developing economic and social
policies and programs to address the whole range of factors that contribute
to poverty.  The UNDP supports programs that seek to, among other things,
(1) generate opportunities for employment and (2)  empower men and women
through access to assets and productive resources.

There should certainly be a place for employee ownership in the design of
these poverty reduction strategies.  UNDP could, for example, provide some
funding for education about employee ownership in countries where employee
ownership might be suitable and require such education as a part of its
intervention.