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- Summing up Muhammad Yunus, "Creating a World Without Poverty"
- I've been reviewing Creating A World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus' visionary book about a new kind of capitalism. I looked at the book in three parts: Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism Is Half-Baked How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement: Synthesis and Overview
- This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda DDA. It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. Intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreement pays particularly close attention to potential reforms...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003
- This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2004 Annual Social and Economic Supplement ASEC to the Current Population Survey CPS conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report concludes with a section discussing income, poverty, and...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Agriculture, Investment and Intellectual Property: Three Reasons to Say No to the FTAA
- While poverty, inequality and the concentration of wealth persist in Latin America and the Caribbean, trade and investment agreements are being promoted that would seriously limit the possibilities of development and poverty eradication in the countries of the region. The Free Trade Area of the Americas is an agreement that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Labour Standards and Poverty Reduction: International Strategies
- Concepts of poverty have broadened in recent years beyond concerns about income and living standards to reflect a concern with vulnerability and risk, and with powerlessness and lack of voice. Increasingly, major institutions of global governance are moving toward comprehensive, broad-based and inclusive approaches to poverty alleviation that assert that...
- White papers 2001-03-21
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- KickStart chooses Serenic Navigator to support its delivery of technology to Africa
- TSX Venture Exchange Symbol "SER" EDMONTON, May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Serenic Corporation (TSX-V:SER), ("Serenic" or the "Corporation"), a leading publisher of financial management and business operations software for nonprofits, international non-governmental organizations NGOs, and the public sector, announced today that Serenic Navigator and integrated business operations solutions...
- Articles 2008-05-22
- Operation HOPE Welcomes Respected, Proven Global Business Leader Gerri Elliott to Its Governing National Board
- Operation HOPE HOPE proudly announcedtoday that Ms. Gerri Elliott has been appointed to Operation HOPE'sNational Board, making her the newest "silver rights" ambassador in supportof the non-profit organization's global campaign to eradicate poverty. "It is an honor to have someone of Gerri Elliott's caliber serving on ourBoard of Directors," said...
- Articles 2008-05-12
- Out of poverty; what works when traditional approaches fail
- Out of poverty; what works when traditional approaches fail. Polak, Paul. Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2008 232 pages $27.95 Hardcover HC79 Polak (founder, International Development Enterprises) exposes and rejects the "Three great poverty eradication myths," namely,...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Cambridge Leadership Associates Names Martin Business Director
- Cambridge Leadership Associates CLA, aprominent provider of leadership consulting services, announced today thatEric Martin has joined the firm as business director. Martin brings to CLA more than 10 years of experience in the nonprofit,public and private sectors in strategic planning, change management, impactassessment, governance and financial management. At CLA, Martin...
- Articles 2008-04-25
- ASK A BUSY PERSON: Russell J. Hansel
- Benjamin Franklin once said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Russell Hansel, MSW, spends his days proving that adage. A licensed social worker, Russ series as the executive director of the Mount Carmel Guild MCG, a non-profit social service agency based in Trenton. The Guild operates...
- Articles 2008-03-01
- Campaign for poverty law groups in N.Y. behind on goal
- Coordinators of the Campaign for Justice 2007 are starting to get nervous: With just over a month left in the annual fundraising drive, several regular contributors have yet to make a pledge, organizers said last week. The 22nd annual campaign kicked off in November with a busy...
- Articles 2008-02-25
- This Month: Main News - Latin America's Bank Of The South Opens For Business.(ABN AMRO Bank N.V and Rothschild Group have discontinued theirjoint venture)(ING Australia acquires FSP Group)
- Seven Latin American presidents have inaugurated the Bank of the South, which starts operations this month. The regional bank was created amid a widespread perception in South America that adjustment policies imposed by multinational agencies have failed. The bank has an initial capital...
- Articles 2008-01-01
- CHOC TACTICS
- Much of Africa's cocoa production is synonymous with child labour and poverty. Not at Kuapa Kokoo. This Ghanaian co-operative owns almost half of the London-based Divine Chocolate company, and business is booming. Rose Skelton pays them a visit. Photography by Aubrey Wade Co-operative members spread out cocoa...
- Articles 2007-12-08
- IBM Partners With Grameen Foundation to Expand Its Open Source Microfinance Banking Platform and Help Eradicate Poverty
- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and GrameenFoundation today announced a collaborative project to help microfinanceinstitutions MFIs better serve poor communities around the world byexpanding Mifos, Grameen Foundation's ground-breaking open sourcemicrofinance software platform. The project will build additionalfunctionality and robustness into the Mifos application and give MFIsaround the world access to new,...
- Articles 2007-10-15
- Pan-African Women's Bank mooted
- * CONFERENCE The second Pan-African Women's Conference meeting in Johannesburg focused on creating a pan-African women's bank as part of a strategy of empowering women to reduce poverty in Africa. "Our goal is the creation of a pan-African bank for women before 2010," said Eno Ben-Udensi,...
- Articles 2007-10-01
- Track online favourites: with an original voice on the issues of the day, from back office operations to trade talks and ethical fashion, the magazine online offers content for a range of users.(Web Trends)
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Trade law, trade talks and e-trade have consistently been the most popular sections in the online version of Trade Forum magazine. New favourites include trade-led poverty reduction and fashion, textiles and clothing. They have joined old favourite "how-to" articles for ...
- Articles 2007-07-01
- Africa calling; Face value.(Mo Ibrahim helped bring mobile phones to Africa)(Company overview)
- Mo Ibrahim helped to bring mobile phones to Africa. Now he has bigger plans IN 1998, as the telecoms boom was under way, Mo Ibrahim was amazed that big companies were rushing into the mobile-phone business around the world, yet not in Africa....
- Articles 2007-05-26
- appointments.
- - Truestone Asset Management has appointed Mark Markiewicz pictured as social responsibility consultant to implement the company's range of socially-motivated investments. Mr Markiewicz has more than 20 years' experience in the UK and international charitable sector with particular experience in creating and directing business solutions...
- Articles 2007-03-05
- Carlos Slim plans to invest in Nicaragua.(NICARAGUA)
- Mexico-based business tycoon Carlos Slim is planning to invest in Nicaragua. Although an amount is not specified, Slim said that it will be a "significant" amount. Investments might be made to increase mobile penetration rates and provide broadband access in the country. ...
- Articles 2007-03-01
- Silent reform through the Global Compact
- For the first time in its history, the United Nations is embracing business and civil society as vital partners in advancing its goals of international peace and development. In today's interdependent and globalizing world, business and the United Nations share common objectives. Despite different purposes--the United Nations works for peace,...
- Articles 2007-03-01
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