Sarah Dusek on Pivoting in Development & Aid

The common image of overseas aid and development is of wealthy countries giving money or food to poorer nations. Is there a better way? In this episode, Eliot Wilson talks to Sarah Dusek, founder of Enygma Ventures, who argues that the best way to help developing countries to marry private capital to sustainable and successful local enterprises. She rejects the notion that trade and foreign policy must be kept separate from aid and describes her work matching investors to female entrepreneurs in southern Africa.