WINNERS
The John Templeton Foundation is pleased to announce the three winners of a recent prize competition for $1.5 million to promote public understanding of how entrepreneurship and market reforms are alleviating poverty and accelerating its disappearance in areas of the world where poverty has been most oppressive and endemic.
Winning think-tanks were selected by an independent panel of leading scholars and practitioners. Each organization will receive $500,000.
THE FRASER INSTITUTE
VANCOUVER, CANADA
A new initiative to measure economic freedom and how free enterprise thoughout the Arab world is lifting individuals and families out of poverty. In partnership with the Oman-based International Research Foundation.
MERCATUS CENTER
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA
The Center will launch Enterprise Africa! to document and communicate the successes of African entrepreneurs and small businesses, as well as the challenges and barriers they face.
THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
Under the leadership of Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Liberty for Latin America, the Institute will create a new research center to examine how market-based institutions are helping to reduce poverty in Latin America and elsewhere.
