Latin America

Poverty rates are creeping back up in Latin America. Investing in entrepreneurs can help change this

Participants of the "Start Up Chile" program work at their headquarters in Santiago, August 10, 2015. Drawn in by equity-free financing and promises of hands-on mentorship, dozens of female entrepreneurs will head to Chile in the coming weeks to participate in what the government says is the world's first state-run start-up program aimed exclusively at women. It's not the first attempt by Chile to catalyze its start-up scene. Since 2010, the government has awarded over $40 million in seed capital to thousands of up-and-coming innovators, according to its own statistics. Picture taken August 10, 2015. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado - RTX1OJWQ

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John Hewko
General Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Rotary International
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No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, Percentage of female 18-64 population who are either a nascent entrepreneur or owner-manager of a new business, 2013
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