Free Enterprise and the Economic Crisis

(04 Dec 09 - RV) Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross was host this week to the first in a series of conferences on Poverty, Entrepreneurship and Integral Development, under the sponsorship of the Acton Institute for Religion and Liberty.

The daylong event Thursday brought together academic experts, researchers and policymakers to consider “Free Enterprise, Poverty and the Financial Crisis.”

One of the featured speakers was the Managing Director of the World Bank, Juan Jose Daboub, who spoke with us about the complementary roles of the private and the public sector in seeking real economic and social improvement…