Enterprises with a cause at their core might be exactly what our economy desperately needs
The Nobel Peace Prize winner discusses recent attacks on his schemes to relieve poverty, from within Bangladesh and abroad.
Peace Prize recipient leaves pioneering Grameen Bank following legal dispute with Bangladeshi government.
Following the global financial crisis, conventional banks have lost a trillion dollars, yet they are still not in favour of lending to the poor.
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/ 17 September 2007
A council of peacemaking world leaders and Nobel laureates launched by former South African president Nelson Mandela is taking up Darfur as its first mission, with a trip to Sudan planned later this month, the organisation said on Monday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who chairs the group known as The Elders, will lead a delegation.
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/ 13 September 2007
Fuelled by last year’s Nobel Prize for a man nicknamed ”banker to the poor”, microlending to small businesses in the world’s poorest countries is booming as individuals discover they can be their own mini World Bank. And you don’t have to be Bill Gates to get in on the act.