Building Small Business Amid Great Challenge: Entrepreneurship in Fragile States

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Speaker
Shari Berenbach

Director, Microenterprise Development Office, USAID

Presider
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Deputy Director, Women and Foreign Policy Program, 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.

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