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How partnerships address unequal outcomes in cultural exchange programs

My business partner and I run a cultural exchange program but we're realizing that most of our participants from wealthy countries get career benefits while participants from developing countries don't see the same opportunities, and we disagree about how much we should restructure to address this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Partners who designed reciprocal programs discover their structure inadvertently replicates global power imbalances.

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