Transcript
  • 00:00    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:10    |    
    Introduction
  • 42.5    |    
    Why are people poor?
  • 02:33    |    
    Where do jobs come from?
  • 03:25    |    
    Business climate matters
  • Doing Business Index- n http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
  • 04:43    |    
    Poverty in Africa
  • 06:32    |    
    Lack of job creation
  • 07:32    |    
    Brick-and-mortar businesses
  • 07:56    |    
    Senegal's ranking
  • 08:41    |    
    Doing business in Senegal
  • 10:51    |    
    Obstructing multinationals
  • 12:24    |    
    Poor accept policies that don't help
  • 13:04    |    
    Experience at the United Nations
    • Not taking entrepreneurship ideas for granted
    • UN resolution "Entrepreneurship for Development"
  • 15:28    |    
    Investing in African entrepreneurs
  • 17:13    |    
    Bad advice from influential economists
  • 18:55    |    
    Entrepreneurial education
  • Economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín
  • 22:57    |    
    Dialogue and conversation
  • 25:17    |    
    Spreading the ideas of entrepreneurship and development
  • 26:23    |    
    Question and answer period
    • Is lack of funding for entrepreneurs a problem in Africa?
      • Investors reject troubled countries
      • What solutions can we find to get funding?
      • Long-term solutions
    • How do you empower the entrepreneurial community with the proper mindset?
      • Integrity and values
      • Moral education in business schools
    • Discussing entrepreneurship on US campuses
      • Peter Singer
      • Whole Planet Foundation at Natural Products Expo West
      • Strategies to talk about controversial ideas
    • Educational models that thwart the entrepreneurial spirit of students
    • Entrepreneurship in Latin America
      • Attitude of entrepreneurs
      • Showing women what they can accomplish
  • 47:43    |    
    Final credits


MIT Global Startup Workshop 2015: Spreading the Ideas of Entrepreneurship and Development

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Magatte Wade takes an impassioned look at the power of entrepreneurs to change the world. What poor people need, she explains, are jobs. Drawing on her experience as a successful entrepreneur from the West African country of Senegal, she argues that creating business environments that promote entrepreneurship is the first step towards generating much-needed jobs. Magatte also examines the current state of economic education and how to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit among students. She encourages the audience to engage others in productive conversations and debates on how free markets, competition, and entrepreneurship can be effective weapons in the global fight against poverty.


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