US Launches Effort to Support Muslim Entrepreneurs Around the World

This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The Obama administration has launched the first in a series of projects to support entrepreneurs in Muslim communities worldwide. The Global Entrepreneurship Program will provide advice and other help for businesses to succeed. Partnerships between public and private organizations aim to assist with everything from securing financing to writing a business plan. The first project is being launched in Egypt. A second project in Indonesia is expected to follow soon. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about the programs at a Presidential Summit on entrepreneurship. She said: “Now these initiatives comprise a first wave of programs to promote global entrepreneurship. But they reflect the Obama administration’s commitment to a new approach to development — one based on investment, not aid. On supporting local leadership and ideas, rather than imposing our own.” More than two hundred fifty people attended the two-day summit meeting held in Washington in late April. Most were from majority Muslim countries. President Obama promised to hold a summit on entrepreneurship in his speech to the Islamic world last June in Cairo. He says the business market is the most powerful force for economic growth and lifting people out of poverty. He also says entrepreneurship is an area where countries can learn from each other. Tim Kane is with the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation, a nonprofit in the …

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