Political will to apply this tool, and i think its a very valid and useful tool for toolkit in the United States, and so we have examples for tunisia and egypt that well talk about, so well talk a little bit about the history of what are these things, how they come about, what can we learn from the past, how are some more recent ones operating, and finally, the most important thing is about the future because i think in some ways this was certainly ahead of its time and theres a lot of learning from the past, but i think there are plenty of countries where we ought to be applying this in new additional countries, but also may be in different ways given the fact that the world is changed from 25 years ago. The instrument needs to adapt the time. We have a very experienced group of panelists. Im excited to have all the smart folks on the panel. I wont go into detailed bios for each of them but i will ask my friend whos the executive director of European Cooperative for Rural Development
International development. From the center for strategic and international studies, this is two hours. Okay. Lets get started. I daniel runde. I hold the chariot csis people can have a conversation about whether not we need to revisit the concept of use Enterprise Funds. Use Enterprise Funds were launched in the early 1990s by george h. W. Bush. The countries focus were u. S. Governmentnt dollars funded investment in developing countries. It was an idea that was ahead of its time, and there were several dozen of these Enterprise Funds that were launched. Many of them were very successful pick some that had some hiccups but most were broadly very successful but you ask yourself why, there is the number Different Countries would you say we ought to be applying this. Rightfully, in the Obama Administration there were a number of countries where there was political will to apply this think its a very valid and useful tool for our toolkit in the United States. So we have examples from tunis
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