Susan Davis on Business Solutions to Fight Poverty
Series: Just Business
From: Carnegie Council
Length: 00:29:45
Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.
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Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.
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JULIA KENNEDY: Welcome to Just Business, a series of interviews on global business ethics. Today I'm sitting down with Susan Davis, president and CEO of the U.S. arm of the Bangladeshi non-governmental organization BRAC USA.
Davis has a long history with world poverty and world development aid, stretching back to her work for the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh in the 1980s. She has also served as chairperson of the board for the Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Davis has long used business solutions to fight poverty. We're going to explore that concept today.
Susan Davis, thanks for joining me on Just Business.
SUSAN DAVIS: Thanks. Glad to be here.
JULIA KENNEDY: First, let me ask you a little about Bangladesh. It's home of Grameen Bank and home of BRAC, which is, I was surprised to find out is the world's largest development agency.
Why is this nation such a hotbed of...
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