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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 04/05
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 03/08
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Who were the previous 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners?
Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his long and nonviolent struggle for human rights in his country. Here is a list of the past 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners and why the committee chose them.
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Change Agent
World Bank unit, MasterCard Foundation boost small loans in Africa
They'll spend $37.4 million over five years to provide microfinancing, which helps people lift themselves out of poverty by starting or expanding small businesses, sending children to school, or improving farms.
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Selling organs to pay off debt: Microfinance needs reforms
Governments and microfinance institutions must continue taking steps to reform the industry and provide the impoverished with a variety of financial services, including savings options and grants, which better meet their needs.
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Change Agent
Opportunity Fund helps opportunity knock for low-income borrowers
Micro-lending to the poor in the US is quietly growing. But the Opportunity Fund finds that helping people learn how to save is important too.
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Change Agent
The bad – and good – news on microcredit
Making tiny loans to the poor may not create successful new businesses as often as once hoped. But it provides an unexpected benefit by supplying cash for other crucial needs such as schooling, health care – even food.
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Micro-lending genius Yunus: Why he was done wrong
The Bangladeshi government's treatment of Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has lifted millions out of poverty with his micro-lending program, is shameful. And it does nothing to help the poor.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 04/05
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 03/08
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India's $5 billion microfinance industry faces backlash over profits
The role of profit-driven companies in India's microfinance industry is raising concerns about its social mission.
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Who were the previous 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners?
Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his long and nonviolent struggle for human rights in his country. Here is a list of the past 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners and why the committee chose them.
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Africa Monitor
At UN, elites mull MDG. Did poor weigh in?
Talk of the Millennium Development Goals at the UN General Assembly this week’s brought home one very clear fact: Western thinking about development is elite-driven.
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Better lives in Bangladesh – through green power
The environmental arm of a Nobel Prize-winning community development bank brings solar power, biogas, better stoves, and economic opportunity to rural residents.
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What the poor can teach the rich at G-20
Microfinance lessons for a macrofinance mess.
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Microfinance can mean a lot to the environment
Earthtalk: Little payments can jump-start a business and lead to greener communities.
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What it takes to open a door for the poor
Big levers are within reach, but tend to be overlooked or controversial.
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How social business can create a world without poverty
We need 'social business' to couple the human heart to the capitalist system.
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