www.globalchange.com Women’s self-help groups. Microloans and microfinance schemes. Financial security. India new bank and financial institutions. Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Thailand, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Mexico. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

The Skoll Foundation has recently completed a short film about the field of social entrepreneurship. Its a great overview of the progress made over the last three decades. It starts with Mohammad Yunus and includes interviews with a number of social entrepreneurs and others in the field, including Sally Osberg of the Skoll Foundation, Bill Drayton of Ashoka, Jacqueline Novogratz of the Acumen Fund, John Elkington of Volans, and author David Bornstein. For more information on these and other …

Global X interviews PN Vasudevan, an entrepreneurial leader with a background in commercial finance who is now CEO of Equitas, a for-profit microfinance institution working in Bangladesh and India. He remembers noticing that poor women usually don’t have a place at the table because they don’t bring food, “but microfinance creates a perceptible shift in the power balance” when women start bringing revenues. Microfinance helped PN Vasudevan open his eyes. As he tells Global X, he now realizes …