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Bootstrapper's bookshelf
in BootStrapMe, on December 21, 2007
...any from Scratch , by author and entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess.
• A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty , Philip Smith and Eric Thurma...
Bootstrapping a life
in BootStrapMe, on October 12, 2007
...n Casper at MSN Finance has these observations about A Million Bootstraps , the book on microcredit philanthropy from Tulsa business man Phil Smith and microcredit guru Eric Thurman.
Micr...
Muhammad Yunus Receives Nobel Peace Prize
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 13, 2006
...t, was honored for his program to lift millions out of poverty through small unsecured loans called microcredit, an idea that has since spread around the world. He told a seminar in Stockholm he welco...
Will Yunus doom microfinance?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 7, 2006
..." Yunus even objects to the term "microfinance," preferring the profit-neutral "microcredit."
This principled allergy to profiting from the poor may be part of the reason wh...
UN pays tribute to Yunus
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 18, 2006
From the UN News Center :
The work of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the microfinance banker and economist Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, offers rich and poor people one of the most simple and yet powerful ideas for development, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General M...
Mirofinance, revisited ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 11, 2006
...obalization Institute lambasts the UK's Department of International Development for not taking microcredit seriously.
*Some more skeptical and critical looks at microfinance at Forbes in a pi...
The Nation on Microcredit
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 26, 2006
...e United Nations, elevated it to that status (and, some say, convinced Yunus it was a panacea), and microcredit is now presented as a relatively painless approach to development. Through its dynamics ...
More Muhammed Yunus ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 14, 2006
...une calls the award 'richly deserved'.
One of the best things coming out of this is that microcredit is getting some deserved PR. Some at the Wall Street Journal , Reuters , U.S. News an...
Muhammed Yunus wins Nobel Peace Prize
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 13, 2006
..., it's been all over the airwaves. This is a great boost to the visibility of microfinance and microcredit of course and Yunus is probably one of the most worthy candidates for the award. Word i...
Libya goes for One Laptop Per Child program
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 11, 2006
...plying for federal AIDS funding.
* Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (The National Credit Fund for Women), a microcredit organization in India targetting poor women, seeks consultant for ambitious expansion pl...
Bangladesh to get microlending boost from UK
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 2, 2006
(Picture from World Concern )
Story from the Financial Express :
The United Kingdom (UK) will extend Tk 5.0 billion (Tk 500 crore) in aid to help Bangladesh scale up its microlending programmes, recognising the exponential growth and expansion of the sector.
The British government, the cou...
Micofinance market to nearly double by 2008
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on September 12, 2006
...-News : The South African Social Investment Exchange.
* Get your frequent flyer miles : The Global Microcredit Summit 2006 will be held from November 12-15, 2006 in halifax , Nova Scotia, Canad...
Case studies: Microfinance
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 1, 2006
...ery brief 'case studies' up on their website. More on one of these at World Hunger Year Microcredit at the Grassroots: A Case Study of a Microfinance Program in pakistan .
*At Mic...
Skeptical views of microcredit
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on July 30, 2006
...d me to this article by Thomas Dichter at the Microfinance Gateway that's worth a read:
Yet microcredit is an almost perfect case of a phenomenon that has come to characterize much of developm...
More microfinance resources
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on July 27, 2006
... of microloans to businesses in the U.S. In 2005, however, some banks were seen as dropping their microcredit functions.
*Microloans in Malaysia ease pain of HIV/AIDS.
*In Central Asia , prov...
Audeamus Awards Round #6
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on July 25, 2006
... of people to highlight as social entrepreneurs.
For this week's Audeamus Awards ...
*In the microcredit arena, there is Robert Graham's NamasteDirect , a project of the Namaste Foundati...
Microcredit resources in the USA
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 27, 2006
... (Picture from GTZ )
Here are a number of links to microcredit resources in the USA that I've been holding for a while, but wasn't sure what to do with. Often when we think of microfinan...
Audeamus Social Entrepreneur Awards Round #5
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 22, 2006
...ntry. Since it started, Taller de Vida has helped over 2,000 families. More at CNN.com .
*In the microcredit arena, there is Robert Graham's NamasteDirect , a project of the Namaste Foundati...
Microfinance, revisited
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 30, 2006
...ch lately about microfinance isssues. So today's post concentrates on microfinance, microloans, microcredit, all of those small scale loan catchwords.
But just what is microcredit? Muhammad Yunu...
The Audeamus Awards Round #3
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 13, 2006
...e trying to hammer home the ethics of sustainability.
*Next up is Muhammad Yunus , called a 'microcredit missionary' by Business Week . Yunus runs Bangladesh 's Grameen Bank, a l...
From out there ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 11, 2006
...d ideas for 'how to improve health for all'." Deadline is May 24th.
*Muhammad Yunus: Microcredit Missionary, at Business Week .
*Professor J. Gregory Dees, Faculty Director, of Duke&...
Microfinance, defined
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 4, 2006
...nce and in that process I started to wonder how defined those words 'microfinance' and 'microcredit' and 'microloans' are. How different are these words? Are they all just sayi...
Case studies in Micro Finance #1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 26, 2006
...rgyzstan :
Late in 2002, Bai Tushum Financial Foundation (BTFF), one of Kyrgyzstan's leading microcredit providers, has received an "A" credit rating. Based on this strong rating, BTF...
micro finance
in TJ's Weblog, on April 12, 2004
... working part time at his company to spend more time with his family and on his passion: supporting microcredit initiatives for impoverished regions."
"Only 30 microfinance initiatives ha...