Fear the Weaker
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Speaker: Shari Berenbach, Director, Microenterprise Development Office, U.S. Agency for International Development
Presider: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Fellow and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
April 17, 2012
Shari Berenbach, director of the Microenterprise Development Office at USAID, details how the agency promotes entrepreneurship in conflict and developing regions by empowering and encouraging women to manage their own small- and medium-sized businesses.
This meeting was part of the Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurs and Market Linkages.
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