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Muhammad Yunus

A Note to Bill Gates, Oprah, Madonna: size isn't everything!

Richard Walden | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact

Read More: Brangelina, Philanthropy, Malawi, Oprah, Grameen Bank, Social Venture Capitalists, Madonna, Pierre Omidyar, Bill Gates, Muhammad Yunus, Bono, Impact News
Richard Walden

I appreciate the Gates family's, Oprah's, and Madonna's philanthropic work, but they're missing a huge world full of local talent, new ideas and smaller-scale projects crying out for funding.

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The Top 15 Business Thinkers: Thinkers 50

Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, Gary Hamel, Slidepoll, Bill Gates, Michael Porter, S.Kris Gopalakrishnan, Malcolm Gladwell, CK Prahlad, Muhammad Yunus, Marshall Goldsmith, Rantan Tata, Paul Krugman, Most Influential Business Thinkers, Ram Charam, Philip Kotler, Thinkers 50, Business News

Amidst the thousands of management tomes published every year, there are only a few truly influential collections of business wisdom. But measuring th...

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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe, Sweden, Nuclear Weapons, Peace Prize, Nobel, War, Morgan Tsvangvirai, Norway, Afghanistan, Thorbjorn Jagland, Iraq, Sima Samar, China, Barack Obama, Hu Jia, Muhammad Yunus, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Palestine, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, World News
Jesse Larner

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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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
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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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Creating Hope and Opportunity in Haiti for Extremely Poor Women and their Families

Susan Davis | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Brac, Women, Clinton Global Initiative, Susan Davis, Microfinance, Ultra Poor, Fonkoze, Haiti, Muhammad Yunus, World News
Susan Davis

After two years of support -- asset transfers, skill training and social linkages -- over 90% of our program women "graduate" into becoming successful microfinance members.

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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
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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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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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Words Apart

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Millenium-Challenge-Corporation, Usaid, Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Easterly, Microfinance, Branko Milanovic, Malagasy-Red-Cross, Hernando De Soto, Financial Crisis, Muhammad Yunus, Business News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Microfinance's intellectual debate could be healthy but it oftentimes ends up in intellectual wars that forsake the ultimate goal: the alleviation of extreme poverty.

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Does Doing Good Wear A White Face?

Julia Moulden | Posted 07.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Warren Buffett, Muhammad Yunus, Social Entrepreneurs, Clearlyso, Oprah, Social Edge, Mars, Grameen Bank, Rod Schwartz, Julia Moulden, First Nations, Bill Gates, New Radicals, Careers, Social Innovation, Micro-Lending, Aditya Jha, Allyson Hewitt, Ted Turner, The Giving Life, Toronto-Canada, Canada, India, Living News
Julia Moulden

Last week's column posed the question, "Is making a difference only for the rich?" A friend sent me a link to an article from the Guardian newspaper a...

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The Yen, the Yuan and the Yunus

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Yen, Yuan, Global Currency, Africa, Imf, Poor Nations, Martin Wolf, Macroeconomic Policy, Muhammad Yunus, Helping the Poor, Business News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

A global currency would allow emerging economies to borrow in their own currency, avoid currency mismatches and the extreme poor can trade with each other without being exposed to currency risk.

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Have You Ever Heard of the 'Muslim Effect'?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Islamophobia, Islam, Orhan Pamuk, Orhan-Pamuk, Moderates, Samuel-Huntington, Muslims, Muslim, Muhammad Yunus, Clash of Civilizations, Osama Bin Laden, Mohammed Yunus, Foreign Policy, Iran, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

An American list of the top 100 intellectuals was dominated by Muslims in the top 10; the only other American list dominated by Muslims is the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list.

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What We Measure Matters

Chip Conley | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Census, Gdp, Leisure, Ghandi, United Nations, Bhutan, Development, The-Leisure-Famine, Muhammad Yunus, Happiness, Business News
Chip Conley

Modern man has been liberated by prosperity but not fulfilled by it; psychologists and economists are seeking new ways to measure the intangibles of public welfare.

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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
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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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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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Third Screen: Can Banks End Poverty?

Vickie Karp | Posted 05.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, Sharon Stone, Grameen Bank, 92nd Street Y, Muhammad Yunus, Business News
Vickie Karp

Grameen, whose slogan is "banking for the unbanked," now operates in 38 countries providing collateral-free loans to over 7.5 million borrowers.

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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
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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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Six Billion Reasons To Get Out of Bed Each Day

Julia Moulden | Posted 03.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Oxford University, New Radicals, Nobel Peace Prize, Social Entrepreunership, Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, Julia Moulden, The Giving Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

With all the bad news about, you may feel like pulling the covers up over your head and waiting until it's over. That thought has certainly crossed my...

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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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Believing We Can Build a Caring Economy

Dave Belden | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Network of Spiritual Progressives, Chris Hedges, Riane Eisler, Economic Stimulus Package, Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Muhammad Yunus, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Dave Belden

What are we facing, doom or possibility of transformation? My reputation is for seeing the glass half full.

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Philanthrocapitalism: Yes We Can

Matthew Bishop | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Bill Clinton, Charity, Nike, Money, Davos, Tony Blair, Economy, Jet Li, Richard Branson, Nancy Lublin, Bill Gates, Business, Capitalism, Davos 2009, Muhammad Yunus, Philanthropy, Environment, World Economic Forum, Business News
Matthew Bishop

The economic crisis may be the catalyst that sorts out the best non-profits from the also-rans, leading to a sharp increase in the overall effectiveness of the sector.

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By the People, for the People: Microfinance Offers the "Transformative Vision" Davos is Seeking

Alex Raksin | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Microfinance, Social Entrepreneurship, Unitus, Davos, Social Entrepreneur, Davos 2009, Muhammad Yunus, World Economic Forum, World News
Alex Raksin

What began as a philanthropic movement to empower the working poor has evolved into a new class of social entrepreneurs who have shown that capitalism can generate significant returns in every sense of the word.

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Mad about Madoff: the Lessons to Learn

Dave Belden | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Network of Spiritual Progressives, Thomas Friedman, Spiritual Capitalism, Tikkun, Madoff, David Korten, Physicians for Human Rights, Muhammad Yunus, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Business News
Dave Belden

If cleaned up, Ponzi-free, derivative-free capitalism comes out of Madoff scandal, then good may yet come of his madness, and of our system.

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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
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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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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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Sarah Palin May Solve McCain's Sizzle Problem

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Women, Alaska, John McCain, Reproductive Choice, Abortion Rights, Mitt Romney, Microcredits, Canada, Tom Tancredo, Muhammad Yunus, Sarah Palin, Foreign Policy, Mike Huckabee, Bay Buchanan, Arkansas, Russia, Hillary Clinton, Republican Party, Vice Presidential Choice, Bay Buchanan Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Many women do like Palin -- there will be a lot who will be drawn to her gutsy, take on Washington's vested interests style as well as to her womanhood.

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