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Sexism and the Workplace: Have We Come a Long Way (Baby)?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Microcredit, Elinor Ostrom, Workplace, Financial Services, France, Elizabeth Warren, Sexism, Obama Administration, Sheila Baer, Feminism, Mad Men, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Business News

The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.

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President Obama, His Mother Ann Dunham and the Nobel Peace Prize

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Microcredit, Poverty, Ann Dunham, Mother, Gloria Origgi, Nobel Peace Prize, Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama, Muhammad Yunus, World News

Obama will be thinking of his mother as he receives the highest honor our world can bestow on a living human being. It is a global recognition of not only the hope he brings but what the future can become.

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Microfinance A Microsuccess

GOOD | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Non-Profits, Microcredit, Microfinance, Charity, The Giving Life, Living News

Microlending, as you may know, is the practice of giving very small loans to poor people in developing countries so they can, in theory, start busines...

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Microfinance as a Solution: Beggars, Thieves, AIDS and Prostitution

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Millenium Goals, Microfinance Summit, Microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, Sam Daley-Harris, Microfinance, Columbia, Results, Poverty, Sex Trafficking, Fonkoze, Grameen Bank, World News

At a recent Microfinance Summit, Sam Daley-Harris spoke about making credit available not only to the poorest of the poor, but to those usually excluded from civil society, like beggars and rebels.

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"Money! Money! Money! -- Cannes Announces Film on Muhammad Yunus"

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia, Microcredit, Poverty, Christian De Boisredon, Nicolas Jourdier, Nobel Peace Prize, Bangladesh, Origin Pictures, Vivian Norris De Montaigu, David Thompson, Muhammad Yunus, Entertainment News

The multi-talented Phyllida Lloyd has attached herself to the development of a feature fiction film based on the spread of microcredit around the world.

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Be Good for Goodness Sake

Valerie Tarico | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Kiva.org, Morality, Microcredit, Atheism, Religion, Charity, Donating to Charity, Giving, Living News

Nonbelievers are coalescing into moral communities which, when freed from the constraints of dogma or proselytism, invest themselves in doing good for goodness sake.

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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

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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Inclusive Capitalism Not Economic Colonialism: the G20 and the Future

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Microcredit, Colonialism, Poverty, Muhammad Yunus, Microfinance, World Bank, Economy, g20, Financial Crisis, Imf, Capitalism, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Business News

We have seen what happens when Capitalism runs amok and is not inclusive. The problem is not capitalism, it is greed and the lack of the human element.

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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

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

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

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Bernanke Approves Savings Banks for the Poor in the US

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Grassroots Banking, Yunus, Poverty, North Carolina Employee's Credit Union, Economy, Bernanke, Poor, Microcredit, Grameen America, Business News

Grameen will apply to act as a savings bank and will be partners with the largest Credit Union in the country to provide microcredit for the poor in the US.

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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

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

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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President Obama's Mother, Hillary Clinton and Muhammad Yunus: Microcredit and Grameen in the U.S.

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Fundamentalism, Women, Yunus, Microcredit, Indonesia, Gates Foundation, Ann Dunham Soetero, Hillary Clinton, Citibank, Microcredit Loan, Business News

Microcredit is the one banking system that is actually working. What other bank these days is made up mostly of women borrowers and can claim a 98-99% payback rate? Surely not Citibank!

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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

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

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

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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Muhammad Yunus and the Financial Crisis: The Human Element

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Microloans, Financial Crisis, Education, Social Business, Michael Milken, Health Care, Muhammad Yunus, Charlie Rose, World Economy, Microcredit, Global Economy, Human Element Finance, Financial Recovery, Underdeveloped Countries, Business News

Perhaps the silver lining in this financial crisis is that we will start focusing on the human part of how we will build a more sustainable future.

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The Antidote to Bad Media Days - Make a Microloan

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Microcredit, Microfinance, Green News

Sarah Palin's bear-draped office sofa can make you either want to laugh or weep, but her views on polar bears do only the latter.

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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

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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Obama is an Expat's Dream Come True: The Son of a Global Citizen

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Mother, Microcredit, Hillary, Poverty Alleviation, World Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Texas, Bush Era, Obama, American, Global Citizen, Social Business, Un, Future Generations, Muhammad Yunus, Politics News

Obama's mother gave a precious gift to her son, the life of both an Americanand that of human being who feels at home in many different cultures, allowing to see the similarities between us all.

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