Poverty and desperation in many parts of the world; particularly the Muslim world, is a result of a lack of education, illiteracy, corrupt governments, regional power struggles and foreign intervention.
Atlas and its partners around the globe have worked tirelessly for decades to change the reality on the ground in these impoverished regions, one Intellectual Entrepreneur (IE) and institution at a time. Often in collaboration with friends in North America and Europe, we provide financial assistance and training to IE´s and foundations in less developed countries, providing the necessary means for them to grow. In the Muslim regions we have partners such as the Alternate Solutions Institute in Pakistan, PalThink for Strategic Studies in Gaza, and Association for Liberal Thinking in Turkey. Many more remarkable individuals and institutes around the world are working to improve the economic and political situation in their countries by planting the seeds of freedom and by providing education, tools and financial support.
While Atlas provides grants, financial and academic support, our long-time partner, the Fraser Institute in Canada, has been producing the Economic Freedom of the World to examine how free market ideas and initiatives improve lives.
The Fraser Institute, along with its regional partners the International Research Foundation (IRF) in Oman, and with assistance of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty, plan to release the 2008 Economic Freedom of the Arab World report in early November.At the coinciding conference in Doha, Qatar, Atlas will participate in a session discussing free enterprise and its impact around the globe.
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