Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses concerns by Afghan entrepreneurs over the future of their economy as the United States draws down its troops and military presence from Afghanistan.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the need for the development community to adopt a comprehensive approach to skills training for entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones.

Jagdish Bhagwati laments the choice by delegates at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to offer platitudes instead of realistic solutions.

Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvin Panagariya say recent election results, favorable central bank policy, and the resiliency of previous reforms should give hope for India's economic future.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon and Ashley Harden state, "Business must be part of putting lives together after war. And economies."

Michael Spence surveys a variety of economic development models, highlighting the problems of long-term sustainability inherent to each.

This meeting was part of the Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurs and Market Linkages.

The G8 meeting at Camp David will focus on food security and advancing political transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, while the debate over solutions to the eurozone crisis will largely shift to the G20 forum, says CFR's Terra Lawson-Remer.

This was a meeting of the roundtable series, Opportunity and Exclusion in the Global Economy.

Brazil's economy depends too much on high commodity prices, and as demand falls, so may Brazil.

Joshua Kurlantzick warns that while investors may look on Burma as a potential emerging market, they should be aware that Burma has experienced periods of short-lived openness before.

Speaker

Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, which advises heads of state and governments worldwide; Author, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World and The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

Presider

Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations

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.

In his new book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu looks at why some nations prosper and why some fail. He concludes that it depends on whether institutions are pluralistic and inclusive or extractive and autocratic.

Addressing Egypt's economically debilitating subsidy system will be hard amid political transition, but with the country's social contract under review, the time is ripe for reform needed to put the country on a more viable economic path, says CFR's Isobel Coleman.

Jagdish Bhagwati criticizes President Obama for nominating Jim Yong Kim to the World Bank presidency over candidates who would pursue pro-reform, pro-growth policies.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses innovations that are enabling entrepreneurs to secure financing.

This was a meeting of the Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurs and Market Linkages.

Terra Lawson-Remer says Jim Yong Kim will help steer the World Bank in the right direction.