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Why Silicon Valley Can't End World Poverty (Marketplace)

July 01, 2013

Charles Kenny is interviewed on Marketplace about his Foreign Policy cover story on technology.

From the article:

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have been successful in disrupting old business models and bringing innovations to the market. That should make them well-equipped to solve world poverty too, right?

"No," said Charles Kenny in an article he co-authored with Justin Sandefur in Foreign Policy magazine titled "Can Silicon Valley Save the World?" "There’s just a lot more to development than the latest whiz-bang app on your iPhone."

Read it here.