1.0 link 70928 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-patricof/america-can-profit-from-f_b_70928.html Whether you are looking at investing in a promising new business or in new systems to reduce poverty, a smart investor looks for certain givens.

• Have internal barriers to growth been analyzed for dismantling and have external barriers been analyzed to be overcome?


• Is the management team -- or in the case of foreign aid, the recipient country's government -- committed to the program and personally invested in the success of what you are trying to achieve?

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