Communities, governments and businesses should compliment each other to drive development, says The Aga Khan
The Aga Khan today called for a “great alliance” bringing together government, communities and business to help drive growth in the developing world.
The Aga Khan, who is the 49th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, said while many cases abound of good work by each of the three, their potential to improve lives was let down by the fact that they applied their efforts separately.
He was joined by several speakers at a key conference in Afghanistan in calling on Governments in developing countries to pursue policies that drive development by accelerating business growth.
“Laying the State’s political foundation is a necessary first step for an enabling environment, but even effective government can take us only so far. And that is why we have been talking more in recent years about two other sectors: first what I often call the role of ‘civil society’; and, secondly, the capacities of the private sector,” he said.
The Shia Ismaili leader spoke when he gave one of the key note addresses during the opening of the second ‘Enabling Environment Conference’ in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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