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Peace Through Finance?: How the Middle East Investment Initiative uses financial tools to help a troubled region
It often seems like a unique set of religious and tribal conflicts are responsible for the Middle East’s problems. But they’re also driven in part by a more universal concern: a weak economy. That’s why the Middle East Investment Initiative is delivering finance and technical assistance that stimulate sustainable economic growth in the region. We discuss this approach with the organization’s CEO and Managing Director in part 1 of this Q&A.
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Teaching the Poor to be Better Customers: Marketplace literacy is the missing piece in the poverty fight
The knowledge gap results in lost wages and limited opportunity for poor people to lift themselves out of poverty. The answer, argues Business Professor Madhu Viswanathan, is marketplace literacy efforts that help the poor evaluate opportunity costs (money, time and effort) of buying a product or service. He reflects on the Marketplace Literacy Project, which he founded more than 10 years ago.
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