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Fadi Ghandour Sees Bright Future For Region’s Entrepreneurs

In an interview with Al-Monitor, Fadi Ghandour, one of the Middle East’s most prominent investors in start-ups, says that private-sector growth is critical to democracy and prosperity for the region, and that the role for regional governments is to facilitate and encourage investment.
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Fadi Ghandour, founder and CEO of Aramex, says that entrepreneurship is “the primary problem solver for youth in the Arab world.”

In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, Ghandour said that economic grievances lie at the heart of the popular uprisings across the Arab world. Democracy and economic empowerment, therefore, go hand-in-hand for Arab youth.

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