A New Strategy To Leverage Business For International Development

Global poverty is as intractable as ever, despite decades of public and private sector efforts to provide help and opportunity for the world's most vulnerable people. The fact that every major industrialized nation shares in this disappointment is of little comfort to the 40 percent of the world's population that lives on less than $2 per day. Their plight is not only a human tragedy, but a source of growing political instability and violent extremism.