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Legatum Center Awards Summer Seed Grants

Teams of MIT students receive support to pursue innovative, entrepreneurial summer projects.

Africa can teach development experts

Writing in the Financial Times: This is Africa, Iqbal Quadir cites African examples of dispersion of power leading to accountability and economic progress.

Categories: Africa, Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Aid , Governance, Mobile Technologies

Dial M for moo-la

"Economic development has to be of the people, for the people, by the people, which means decentralization," says Quadir in this Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship article.

Patient Capital for an Impatient World | April 9, 2009

Lecturer: Jacqueline Novogratz

CEO and Founder, Acumen Fund
Author, The Blue Sweater

Categories: Event, News

Bottom-up Development and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets | March 6, 2009

Lecturer: Michael Chu

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School, Social Enterprise Initiative
Co-founder and Managing Director, Ignia Fund
Former President and CEO, ACCION International
Senior Advisor and Founding Partner, Pegasus Capital

MIT, Innovation, and Bottom-Up Development | October 03, 2008

Lecturer: Jack Hennessy

CEO, Credit Suisse First Boston (1990-1997)

Categories: Event

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