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• The season for sharing

  
  Rings and Things — Authority: 416
  I just wanted to take a minute to thank the nice people I work with.  They set aside money from every paycheck in 2009, to be donated to charities in this giving season. I also want to thank Rings & Things’ owners Russ and Dee.  They matched our contributions dollar for dollar.  It feels nice to be able to ...
  3 days ago

• Day Six: Old Friends and Off to the Airport

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  My last day in the country was on the beginning of the Bangladeshi weekend – Friday.  That meant somewhat less traffic, a blessing to be sure.  I spent the three hours, starting at 10am, with my former research assistant, Abdul Mannan Talukdar.  He is the first Area Manager in the history of Grameen who started ...
  4 days ago

• Day Five: Back in the Grameen Headquarters

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  I arrived at the Grameen Complex at 10:30am on Thursday, after having visited my old dentist (who does quality work for a fraction of the price charged back home).  Before I began my first meeting, I noticed the almost frenetic activity around me in each office I entered.  My good friend Mir Akhtar Hossain, who ...
  4 days ago

• Day Four: Transit Back to Dhaka, and a Reunion

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  I awoke on Wednesday in what we in the U.S. would consider a large tin shed.  As the manager had warned, mice had run amok in the rafters at times during the night.  Fortunately, I was able to tune it out after a while.  Soon I was off to the Zianpur bazaar to say my goodbyes to the local Grameen staff, the ...
  4 days ago

• Day Three: Grameen Villages – Back to Kholshi via Narandia

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Microfinance Client Shaheeda Begum After a delicious Bengali breakfast of vegetables and paratha, I began a field trip that would ultimately bring me to Kholshi, where I did most of the research for my book Small Loans, Big Dreams.  But first I asked to see a Grameen Bank center meeting, to see how the process has ...
  1 week ago

• Day Two: Grameen Power and Moving to the Field

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Muhammad Yunus and Royston Braganza Royston and I spent the first few hours on Monday back in the Grameen Complex in Dhaka.  The most exciting meeting was with two retired Grameen Bank officials — Fazley Rabbi and, briefly, Abser Kamal – both of whom now work with Grameen Shakti (Energy).  Shakti, a sister ...
  1 week ago

• In face of climate change, adapt…

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 112
  As the events at the Copenhagen summit on climate change continue to unfold this week, I think it is important that we look at the relationship between climate change and microfinance. The microfinance industry has been almost silent about climate change. Even in Bangladesh, where microfinance institutions ...
  1 week ago

• Bharti Airtel To Buy 70% Stake In Warid Telecom; The Bangladesh Telecom Market

  
  MediaNama: Digital Media in India — Authority: 527
  After its failed attempt at merging with South African operator MTN, India’s largest cellular operator Bharti Airtel is scouting for international acquisitions. The Daily Star reports that Airtel has sought the approval of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to pick up 70 percent stake ...
  1 week ago

• Does Microcredit Squeeze out the Moneylender?

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 112
  According to Grameen and others, microcredit should reduce poor people’s need to use moneylenders, who are widely (though perhaps not always correctly) regarded as exploiters.  Microcredit is booming in India. But a December 15 article in the Wall Street Journal reports that the number of moneylenders is growing ...
  1 week ago

• Back in Bangladesh

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, and the author of “Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World” (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Below is Part Two of this journey to assess the state of microfinance with Grameen Foundation partners ...
  1 week ago

• So, what is discussed in these repayment meetings?

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 434
  By Thomas Gold, KF9, Dominican Republic I am quite a picky person when it comes about writing. I really make it a point to write as properly as possible, even in a non-native language. Therefore, when I am writing an entry for the Kivafellows blog, I use to plan it, prepare a draft, then write it in French (my ...
  1 week ago

• Some final thoughts from Bangladesh

  
  The Social Business — Authority: 418
  Here are some final thoughts from Liam, before he begins his journey home from Bangladesh. All alone in the hotel restaurant. Feels very weird after being so close to 22 people for the last week. All our Inside Grameen Delegates are speeding away from me at 30,000 feet to the four corners.  Left behind to work on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Entrepreneurship: Tulane University

  
  Small Business Tips — Authority: 129
  Society has a way of convincing us that wealth arises from those that work hard and get a well paying job in some financial institution on Wall Street. While I do not dispute that you can get really wealthy managing other people’s money as a fund manager or if you like to run an investment company like Warren ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why VirtuArte?

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 125
  The following post by Debbie Myers , Founder of Virtuarte, is part of Disruptive Women’s “The Value of Health: Creating Economic Security in the Developing World” series. Deborah E. Myers has more than 25 years of experience in international economic development, including advocacy, public policy and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grameen - The Dignity Engine

  
  The Social Business — Authority: 418
  The experience is nearly over.  Heres Liams latest post from Bangladesh. Back in the bus. Big crash had blocked main road to Dhaka so we take side road. Mistake. We get stuck in the middle of a gridlocked village surrounded by people. Sham – our Grameen guide – jumps out and disappears into the melee. Feels ...
  2 weeks ago

• Micro-credit programmes beat global meltdown: Muhammad Yunus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Microcredit programmes were able to weather the global meltdown as compared to the big conventional banks that were on the verge of collapse, Nobel laureate and noted economist Muhammad Yunus said here Wednesday.“While big conventional banks with all their collateral were collapsing, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Meet the Grameen Borrowers

  
  The Social Business — Authority: 418
  Heres Liams latest post from the back of a bus in Bangladesh. I’m in the back of a minibus hurtling along the road to Bogra. Beside me our film director Sumeru. Film equipment is piled around me. Outside people teem in their thousands. Lorries loaded to tipping point belch out diesel smoke. Buses full (and I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Muhammad Yunus to deliver Lok Sabha memorial lecture

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will deliver the second Professor Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Annual Parliamentary Lecture Wednesday evening in the Central Hall of Parliament House.Yunus, managing director of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank, will speak on “Social Business: A Step Toward Creating a New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Meeting Muhammad Yunus

  
  The Social Business — Authority: 418
  Liam Black is in Bangladesh visiting a number of social businesses run by Grameen.  Ive handed the blog over to him for a week to tell us what hes up to.  Heres his latest post.... Not every day you get to meet the worlds best known social entrepreneur and Nobel prize winner and have dinner at a British ...
  2 weeks ago

• VIDEO: Chrysler ad gets political, advocates for release of Myanmar Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 742
  Filed under: Videos , Chrysler , Celebrities Chrysler 300 in political spot - click above to watch the video This is... different. To summarize, a new commercial by Chrysler is agitating for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmars (a.k.a. Burmas) pro-democracy leader and lightning rod who has ...
  3 weeks ago

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