How America's Richest People Are Bringing Hope To The Eighth-Poorest Nation In The World - Building Markets

How America’s Richest People Are Bringing Hope To The Eighth-Poorest Nation In The World

by Clare Hutchinson
November 18, 2013

For the final session, Building Markets, a nonprofit that helps the most promising Liberian entrepreneurs get access to capital and contracts, hand-selected nine for a West African version of Shark Tank. Competitors included a group that makes flour from plantains, a concern that wants to consolidate local rice growers so that they have enough scale to sell countrywide and two different electricity companies–no small idea in a country that doesn’t have power outside its capital.

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