The Prosperity Paradox: Ending Global Poverty

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Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent annually on international development and poverty alleviation projects in poor countries, many of the most well-intentioned projects don’t succeed, and some of today’s poorest countries are even poorer than they were 50 years ago. Why is this the case? Why is prosperity so hard to achieve and sustain? In this session, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and his colleagues Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon, will discuss what they call The Prosperity Paradox. They will explain a simple, yet counterintuitive approach to creating prosperity in many of today’s impoverished countries. Together, they’ll explore how investing in a certain type of innovation – market-creating innovation – will pull in the resources society needs to prosper.