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Foreign Affairs committee  You had the world's leading expert here, Hernando de Soto, answering this question. I can simply repeat a little bit of what he said. In Kenya right now we're working with an association of the informal sector to try to give them voice. There is a bill in front of the Kenyan ses

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  There are a number of bilateral chambers where they have a large proportion.... The Afghan-American chamber, for example, has really tried to mobilize the Afghan diaspora to this end. I think it is an underutilized resource. The remittances are certainly there. A lot more could

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, let me say that I can't guarantee anything. It's up to the people of the country to guarantee it. But I also don't want to leave the impression that I think everything should flow down to, and be part of, an entrepreneurial delivery mechanism. There are other aspect

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, we do. We don't do this in Washington, by trying to figure out what the dominant cultural pattern might be in a country. Instead, we first identify partners in countries. This is why we're slower to get going in some countries than others. We rarely start organizations—alth

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that's what the Millennium Challenge Corporation compact for Ghana is trying to focus on. The thing that is really nice about the compact is that it's based on the premise that help will be given once they've already gotten to a certain level. Of course, there are areas i

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  In the area of institutions for local development, to my mind, when you look at the informal sector and you realize that these are largely people trapped in poverty, and that 80% of the work in many countries is done by women, there really isn't much you can do without addressing

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. We actually have developed something called our knowledge management program, because we found, as I said and as you agreed, every situation is unique, but nevertheless there are general principles that you can learn from one situation to another. Working in Haiti for a cou

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  I would agree with all those points. The other thing that I think is really important to keep in mind is that in Asia they started with the import substitution model of development, which so many countries adopted based on Raúl Prebisch's work, which was a tragic flaw.... But w

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  Oh, that's absolutely right. There are countries in Africa that could go either way. Right now, Senegal, unfortunately, is one of those. There could be a role for Canada, in its participation in the community of democracies, or for Canada with the U.S. and other countries, to try

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  Were you directing that at Mr. Eaton?

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  You do it differently in every single country. If there's one message I can leave, it's that there's no model out there that's going to fit every different environment. You have to design it according to what's going on in the particular country. In some countries, for example,

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  It's critical. Otherwise, we wouldn't be doing the work, obviously. Where I would draw the distinction, though, and this is one of the things.... The National Endowment for Democracy was created in 1983 as a result of President Reagan's Westminster speech. It's a unique instituti

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

Foreign Affairs committee  I agree. There are actually now about 17 African countries that have had sustained growth and are doing fairly well. They are documented very nicely in a book by Steven Radelet, who is currently the chief economist at USAID. Prior to that, he helped set up the Millennium Challeng

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan

February 13th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. John Sullivan