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Free Enterprise, Poverty, and the Financial Crisis

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Conference Papers
The World Financial Crisis and Poverty in Latin America
By Professor Carroll Rios de Rodriguez

Free Enterprise, Poverty, and the Financial Crisis
By Professor Harold James

Escaping the Survival Trap
By Mr. Eric Kacou

Other Media
Recipe for Ending Poverty: Think, Then Act
by Samuel Gregg

La libera impresa è il peggior nemico della povertà
Intervista a Samuel Gregg, Direttore di ricerca dell’Acton Institute

Overcoming Poverty through Charity
An interview with Rev. Robert A. Sirico and Samuel Gregg


Institutions, Ethics, and Finance

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Press Release - Spanish

Conference Papers
Morality, Money, and Banking
By Dr. Samuel Gregg

Instituciones, Doctrina Social de la Iglesia, y Desarrollo Humano
By Dr. Roberto Bosca


Building a Commercial Society: Culture & the Transition to Wealth

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Conference Papers
Welcome letter from His Eminence Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz

Economics and Ethics of a Welfare State
By Professor Leszek Balcerowicz

Moral Principles for a Free Economy
By Mr. John O'Sullivan

The Themes of the Free Market Economy and State in the Encyclicals of Benedict XVI
By Father Kestitus Kevalas

Other Media
Morzem euro i dolarów można tylko odłożyć katastrofę na później
Rev. Robert Sirico

Interview with Dr. Mart Laar


Catholic Social Teaching, Free Enterprise, and Poverty

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Press release in English or Portuguese from November 5, 2010
Press release in English or Portuguese from November 9, 2010

Conference Papers
Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Development: A Pastoral Perspective
By Bishop Filippo Santoro

Commerce, Poverty, and Integral Human Development
By Rev. Prof. João Seabra

Ethics vs. Regulation: Free Enterprise and Economic Development
By Mr. Paul Atkins

Development and Underdevelopment: Lessons and Questions
By Prof. Miguel Morgado

Other Media
Radio interview with Professor Cesar Das Neves
Radio interview with Bishop Filippo Santoro


Economic & Cultural Transformation: Breaking the Shackles of Poverty

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Conference Papers
The Central Role of the Christian Understanding of the “Human Person” in pursuit of Human and Economic Growth: Social Teachings of the Church.
by Bishop Anthony Muheria

Challenges to Entrepreneurship and Development in Africa
By Reverend Chanshi Chanda

Moral & Attitudinal Pre-Requisites of Successful Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
By Kishore Jayabalan

Poverty and Inequality in Africa Reconsidered
By Professor Robert W. Vivian


Family-Enterprise, Market Economies & Poverty: The Asian Transformation

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Conference Papers 
Rome, Beijing, and "Catholicism with Chinese Characteristics" 
By Dr. Raquel Vaz-Pinto

The Role of Executive Directors
By Mr. Prachuab Trinikorn

Other Media
Rome Reports interview with Prof. Raquel Vaz-Pinto


From Aid to Enterprise: Economic Liberty & Solutions to Poverty

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Conference Audio
Lord Brian Griffiths
Christianity and the Moral Foundations of Development

Dr. Antoinette Kankindi
Economic Growth: Why Institutions Matter More Than Aid

Prof. James Tooley
Private Education and Human Creativity in Developing Countries

Mr. Herman Chinery-Hesse
Entrepreneurship, NGOs, and Foreign Aid in the Developing World: A Practitioner's Insights

Ms. Marcela Escobari
Visualizing Growth: Mapping Each Country’s Path to Prosperity

Mr. Declan Ganley
The Irish Experience: Lessons for Developing Nations

Ms. Anielka Munkel
Faith, Freedom, and the End of Poverty


Conference Papers (coming soon!)

Other Media
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