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Madeleine Bunting

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/ 22 February 2008

What’s the really big idea?

The figures tell their own extraordinary story. In 1974 an economics lecturer at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, lent $27 to a group of impoverished villagers. He went on to set up Grameen Bank to ensure that the poor had access to loans and, over the next 34 years, it disbursed $6,6-billion in millions of tiny loans to those living in poverty. Last year there were 7,4-million borrowers, 98% of whom were women.

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/ 16 April 2007

Failure could haunt a generation

Here’s a dream. It’s the 2009 G7 summit and the photo call of the seven world leaders. All eyes are trained on the trio of women at the centre of the group: the United States president, the French president and the German chancellor. To mark this moment of female achievement, these three world leaders have invited the Chilean and Liberian presidents to the summit as observers.

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