I had the same reaction - Silicon Valley is not Bangladesh. I am moving my comment below to you. Hans Rosling (RIP) did a great job of defining poverty and vis

I had the same reaction - Silicon Valley is not Bangladesh. I am moving my comment below to you. Hans Rosling (RIP) did a great job of defining poverty and visualizing the changing nature of poverty. His area of focus was on child mortality - so it tended to focus on the mothers since they have the greatest impact on this statistic. Later he focused on other areas. Sanitation, water, transportation etc. https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/?countries=bd https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/?countries=bd At the Bangladesh level of poverty, a productive asset is a goat that produces milk. The Heifer Project is doing useful work in giving low income families productive assets. https://www.heifer.org/ https://www.heifer.org/ Finally there is the whole world of micro loans. I have not looked into this as much.