This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Susan Davis talks about a BRAC program for the ultra-poor that pushes the frontiers of what's possible in development – reaching those who are too poor for microfinance. The program has shown great results from randomized control trials and Susan believes that we know enough, we are rich enough, and together powerful enough to end global poverty.
Susan is an author,
speaker, and thought
leader in international
development and civil
society innovation. In
2006, she founded
BRAC USA, an organization created to advance the global mission
of BRAC, the world’s largest nonprofit organization. BRAC
USA mobilizes resources for, provides strategic and programs
services to, and educates the public about BRAC’s pioneering
work to alleviate poverty and create opportunity for the poor. In
2010, she co-authored the book Social Entrepreneurship: What
Everyone Needs to Know with David Bornstein of The New York
Times. Susan first became acquainted with microcredit—and
specifically with the holistic anti-poverty approach of BRAC
and its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed—from her years with
the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh and with Women’s World
Banking. She is a founding (and current) board member and
past chair of the Grameen Foundation. Susan has appeared on
CNN and ABC News, and her work on microfinance and entrepreneurship
creation in developing countries has appeared
in Innovations and Harvard Business Review.
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