ProSperty Unbound

“Thought 4 Action identifies and removes economic and regulatory barriers that obstruct prosperity for all people across the globe”

To create a wave of consciousness of the urgency of addressing informality now, Thought 4 Action launched a global campaign, 70% Informals. The key component of the campaign is a feature-length documentary which features Elena traveling to the GlobalSouth, Africa, Europe, and the United States, interviewing people living informally and others who have risen into the middle class.

70% Informals

Vision Statement

Thought4Action envisions a world profoundly transformed, where informality has been definitively overcome, unleashing boundless human potential and ensuring that dignity, inclusion, and sustainable prosperity are the foundational realities for every individual and community across the globe, anchored by a robust and thriving global middle class.

Mission Statement

Thought4Action’s mission is to proactively identify and systematically dismantle the economic and regulatory barriers that obstruct prosperity for all, thereby transforming societies globally from the debilitating grip of informality into dynamic, inclusive, and thriving economies through groundbreaking, evidence-based reform.

Thought 4 Action is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

70% Informals

Who We Are

Élena Panaritis

Who We Are

Élena Panaritis is an institutional economist, and policy innovator. Until recently, she served as a special advisor to the Greek Prime Minister and as a Member of Parliament of Greece.

In more than a decade as an economist at the World Bank, Élena spearheaded several institutional/structural reforms including property rights reform in Peru that received International Best Practice and Innovation awards (in total about 15 million people benefited while the return has been over a 150 multiple).

Élena’s reform methods have revolutionized and forever changed the way people and policymakers think about them, specifically related to structural reforms. As an economist, she pioneered social entrepreneurship.

Élena Panaritis

Advisory Board

Cyrus Ardalan

Chairman of OakNorth Bank, Chairman of LXI REIT PLC

William H. Buiter

Economic Advisor, Former Global Chief Economist of Citigroup

Francis Fukuyama

Political scientist Stanford University, International scholar

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Economic Historian, International scholar

Carl Muñana

Sir Christopher Pissarides

Economics, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Susan M. Wachter

Economist, Director of the Wharton School Geospacial Initiative

Peter Zemsky

Eli Lilly Chaired Professor of Strategy and Innovation at INSEAD

What We Do

THOUGHT4ACTION PROVIDES UNIQUE RESOURCES FOR LEADERS IN POLICY, ACADEMIA, FINANCE, AND OTHERS COMMITTED TO TRANFORMING INFORMALITY TO UNLOCK PROSPERITY FOR ALL

LIVE EVENTS & E-PLATFORM

Through online venues, conference, seminars, and publications, we promote the interactive sharing of knowledge and practical experience of both successful and failes reform cases.

DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT

We offer a proven, diagnostic tool, Reality Check Analysis, that enables a robust assessment of the institutional malaise currentle preventing the full economic participation of all citizens, especially the poor and most economically marginalized.

LEADERSHIP INCUBATING CLASSES

We have established working alliance with Stanford University´s Center for Development and the Rule of law; the World Bank; Johns Hopkins University School od Advanced International Studies (SAIS); and INSEAD School of Finance; and we continue to build our network of partners.

LEADERSHIP INCUBATING CLASSES

Our Mission

Thought4Action is a nonprofit Action Tank dedicated to identifying and removing economic and regulatory barriers that obstruct prosperity for all. We work globally to transform societies trapped in informality into inclusive, thriving economies through innovative, evidence-based reform.

Thought 4 Action is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

70% Informals