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A Near-Zero-Cost Approach to Do-Gooding: My 375th Kiva Loan

Bob Harris | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Microloans, Uganda, Philippines, Yunus, Grameen, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Shriver, Mozambique, Third World, Muhammad Yunus, Costa Rica, Kiva.org, Peru, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Kiva, Developing World, Hillary Clinton, Development, Nicaragua, Business News
Bob Harris

Metaphorically, micro lending is not giving someone a fish, and it's not teaching someone to fish; it's helping a fisherman patch a hole in his rowboat so he can get on with life.

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Trust Is the Answer: Yunus and the Future of Everything

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Microloans, Women, Nobel Peace Prize, Yunus Movie Project, Microcredit, Grameen, Yunus, Trust, Yunus Film, Economy, Loans, Banking, Financial Crisis, Subprime, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

If you give up on trusting your fellow human beings, then the Bastards win. They make you mistrustful like they are.

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An Expat's Week in America: Health Care, Yunus, Grameen and Broadway

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia, Grameen, Poverty, Economy, Broadway, Bankers, Grameen America, Doctors, Obama, Media, Health Care, Muhammad Yunus, Living News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

No one can crush the spirit of those who are doing what they love to do, and sharing it with us.

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Entrepreneurship Will Lead Us Out of This Mess: Yunus' World From Micro to Macro

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Yunus, Microcredit, Bottom of the Pyramid, Trickle Down, Grameen, Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Crisis, Credit as a Human Right, Entrepreneurship, Native American, Cuba, Grameen-Phone, Economy, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

This time, instead of believing in the same old trickle down economics, know that it will be grassroots bottom of the pyramid building up.

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Muhammad Yunus: Social Business, the Financial Crisis and the Little Engine that Could

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Yunus, Danone, Microcredit, Poverty, Nobel Peace Prize, Grameen, Bangladesh, Economy, Volkswagon, Financial Crisis, Poor, Social Business, Laser, Capitalism, Cofinoga, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Muhammad Yunus, the poor, and countries which we have always considered "underdeveloped" have a lot to teach us about sustainability!

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Microcredit As Part of the Solution: Yunus Spreads Grameen in the U.S.

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Yunus, Poverty, University of North Carolina, Clinton, Nobel Peace Prize, Creative Capitalism, Grameen, Rescue Package, Loans, Obama, Microcredit, Geithner, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

The crowds in the U.S. waiting to hear Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and founder of the Grameen bank for the poor, are growing la...

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Timothy Geithner and his Father's Legacy in Microcredit

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Grameen, Ford Foundation, Peter Geithner, Nobel, Ann Dunham Soetero, Timothy Geithner, Hillary Clinton, Microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, People's Banks, India, Thailand, Poverty, Zimbabwe, Third World, Third World Countries, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary Nominee, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Global Poverty, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Geithner grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand. It would have been impossible for him to not have seen what true poverty is and how his father was helping to establish part of the solution.

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Don't get crushed at the mall - Create Jobs

Jack Hidary | Posted 01.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Toys, Walmart, Small Business, Microcredit, Santa Claus, Grameen, Holiday Gifts, Jobs, Kiva, Holiday, Kiva.org, Accion, Microfinance, Hannukah, Christmas, China Lead, Stampede, Style News
Jack Hidary

Think your are helping the economy by buying some holiday gifts? Instead of giving more stuff to your relatives and friends that they don't need, d...

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Crisis = Disaster + Opportunity: Yin And Yang, And What China Knows About The Economy

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Chile, Yunus, Microcredit, French, Marianne De Boisredon, Yin, Opportunity, Grameen, Economy, Bank for the Poor, Social Business, Capitalism, China, Communism, Male, Yang, Hedge Funds, Disaster, Financial Crisis, Crisis, Socialist, Female, Private Banks, War on Terror, Banks for the Poor, Women and Business, Women in Business, War in Iraq, Global Recession, Bush Administration, Balanced Economy, Socialism, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

This lack of balance is why we need more women involved in leading the world's economy. There is simply too much of a male-focused approach and it is not working!

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President-Elect Obama: A Lesson from Your Mother-Put Women in Charge of the Economy!

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.14.2008 | Style

Read More: Obama's Mother, Women, Good Ole Boys, Grameen, Yunus, Microcredit, Iceland, Economic Crisis, Obama's Grandmother, Banking, S. Ann Soetero, President-Elect, Scandinavia, Barack Obama, Style News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Obama's mother knew a thing or two about how women, when in charge of the economy, be it of a household, a bank, or a country, can make a real difference.

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Bring Back Trust in Banking: Some Ideas from Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Grameen, Clinton Global Initiative, Trust, Finance, Nobel Peace Prize, Banking Crisis, Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, Legal, Asian Currency Crisis, US Stock Market Crisis, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, US Stock Market, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

We all need to believe in and have trust in our banks, or the whole thing comes tumbling down.

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Economic Colonization: The Rich Profiting from the Poor is Not the Way to Handle Microfinance

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Grameen, Microcredit, World Bank, Borrowers, Foundation, Business, Alex Counts, Donate Grameen America, Wealth, Microfinance, Interest Rates, Mohammed Yunus, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

What is the point of microfinancing the poor build up small businesses if it is only to eventually provide wealthy, Western-owned businesses and individuals with even a larger share of the world's wealth?

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