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- Muhammad Yunus On How to End Poverty
- The third section of Creating a World Without Poverty details Muhammad Yunus' vision for creating social businesses and how they will eliminate poverty. Yunus recaps some of the hoops that had to be jumped through before Grameen Danone could start making high-nutrition, low-cost yogurt in Bangladesh. Capital...
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- 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
- Building Social Capital Through Micro-Finance: A Perspective on the Growth of Micro-Finance Sector With Special Reference to India
- This paper is based on the premise that poverty has its own culture. Social system and subsystems of this culture are built on exploitation. The rich are exploiting the poor by putting them into a debt-trap of money-lending system. This system exists everywhere in the world wherever poverty exists. The...
- White papers 2004-06-29
- Impact Of Efficiency Gain Under Competitive Pressure On Indian Households
- The paper makes an attempt to look into the question how competitive pressure would impact upon the income distribution and poverty of household groups through the change in productivity-efficiency in the economy using an input-output analysis in a general equilibrium framework. Three sources of growth are considered: efficient utilization of...
- White papers 2004-03-17
- Macroeconomic Performance And Poverty Reduction
- This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes of growth and 52 episodes of economic downturn in developing and transition economies. It shows that, on average, i the greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Chapter 8: Energy and the Vulnerable
- Most of the people take for granted being able to turn the lights on and keep their homes warm. But for some people, basic energy needs account for a disproportionate amount of their income. The aim of the paper is that as far as reasonably practicable no household should be...
- White papers 2003-02-26
- Fuel Poverty Monitoring - Energy Company Schemes
- The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the effects these schemes are having on fuel poverty, not just in terms of the number of households helped and the money spent on the schemes, but in terms of measured improvements. These include trying to assess the increase in energy efficiency...
- White papers 2003-02-28
- 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
- Chapter 3: Common Measures for Tackling Fuel Poverty
- The overall approach adopted by the Government and the Devolved Administrations has been, and continues to be, to tackle the root causes of fuel poverty by improving energy inefficient housing, reducing fuel bills and by tackling low incomes. This paper sets out the common policies that operate energy efficiency measures,...
- White papers 2001-11-14
- Business Cycles, Economic Crises, And The Poor : Testing For Asymmetric Effects
- In this paper, the author examines whether output contraction associated with cyclical output fluctuations and economic crises has an asymmetric effect on poverty. He identifies four potential sources of asymmetry, expectations and confident factors, credit rationing at the firm level, borrowing constraints at the household level, and the " labor...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Income Growth and Future Poverty Rates of the Aged
- This paper estimates effects of future growth in income on the poverty rates of the elderly. If real earnings and other income were to increase steadily at 1 percent per year, poverty among the elderly, 10.5 percent in 1997, would decrease to about 7.2 percent in 2020 and to 4.1...
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- GE Healthcare Announces Partnership with Grameen Health to Explore Sustainable Healthcare Delivery Models for the Developing World
- Partnership Supports Business Models To Help Address Health Needs Of 4 Billion People Around the World Who Live on Annual Incomes of Less Than $3,000 WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and Grameen Health, an affiliate of Grameen Bank, the pioneering...
- Articles 2008-09-24
- Grameen Health and Pfizer Announce Novel Partnership to Explore Sustainable Healthcare Delivery Models for the Developing World
- Partnership Supports Business Models To Help Address Health Needs Of 4 Billion People Around the World Who Live on Annual Incomes of Less Than $3,000 NEW YORK -- Pfizer Inc and Grameen Health, an affiliate of Grameen Bank, the pioneering micro-financing organization in Bangladesh that shared the Nobel...
- Articles 2008-09-24
- Grameen Health to Establish Independent Collaborations with Pfizer, GE Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic to Create Sustainable Healthcare Delivery Models for the Developing World
- Partnerships Will Support Development of Business Models That Meet the Health Needs of 4 Billion People Around the World Who Live on Annual Incomes of Less Than $3,000 BOSTON -- Grameen Health, an affiliate of Grameen Bank, the pioneering micro-financing organization in Bangladesh that shared the Nobel Peace...
- Articles 2008-09-24
- Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Provides Financing to E+Co
- Funding Will Help Combat Climate Change & Poverty NEW YORK -- The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation today announced it has provided a $400,000 loan to E+Co, an award-winning non-profit investment company that invests in clean energy businesses in Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to help combat...
- Articles 2008-08-18
- Poverty reduction strategies in action; perspectives and lessons from Ghana
- Poverty reduction strategies in action; perspectives and lessons from Ghana. Ed. by Joe Amoako-Tuffour and Bartholomew Armah. Lexington Books 2008 343 pages $85.00 Hardcover HC1060 Ghana serves as a fascinating case study in this...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- The political economy of macroeconomic policy reform in Latin America; the distributive and institutional context
- The political economy of macroeconomic policy reform in Latin America; the distributive and institutional context. Wiesner, Eduardo. Edward Elgar Publishing 2008 278 pages $120.00 Hardcover HC125 Wiesner is a former Colombian Minister of Finance...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- SO IS RAY LEWIS A HERO OR A VILLAIN?
- The deputy mayor of London was hailed as a leader for troubled black youngsters, then forced to quit after allegations surfaced from his past. Paul Vallely investigates the record of the man cast aside Conservative crusader cast out The...
- Articles 2008-07-09
- South African Financial Markets Review 2008/2009 - Available Now
- DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8c8876/south_african_fina) has announced the addition of the "South African Financial Markets Review 2008/2009" report to their offering. Co-sponsored by Rand Merchant Bank, South Africa's leading investment bank, the inaugural South African Financial Markets Review is a highly interesting and...
- Articles 2008-07-08
- Md. Gov. O'Malley: 100,000 added to Medicaid just the beginning
- More than 100,000 formerly uninsured Maryland residents are now eligible for health care coverage, thanks to the passage of a new Medicaid expansion act that, according to Governor Martin O'Malley, is just one step in the state's mission to expand health care to as many Marylanders...
- Articles 2008-07-08
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