Latest Past Events

Book Launch: Making Markets More Inclusive

Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa

October 16, 2014 - Most studies of doing business at the “bottom of the economic pyramid” focus on viewing the poor as consumers, or as potential employees of local companies. The book Making Markets More Inclusive takes a new approach: focusing on the poor as micro-entrepreneurs and as primary producers of agricultural commodities.

Belonging Matters: Identity, Health and Sustainable Development

Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa

June 2, 2014 Aga Khan Foundation Canada and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) hosted an interactive evening of ideas exchange that explored the power of identity in sustainable development and that marked the opening of the Second International Conference on Social Identity and Health.