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Microloans, microfinance, microcredit, banking and insurance

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:18:45 +0000

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.

What major should I pursue in college that will help me move to the UK? – US college student, want to move2UK.

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:24:27 +0000

I am fascinated by European culture and history and am hoping to persue a major that will help transfer me permanently overseas, especially to the UK, where I hope to live. Currently, I'm a freshman at an American college, aiming for International Business/finance/economics ,but am looking for more choices. Thank you.
Unfortunately, I am not interested in the field of medicine, and am not such a science-oriented person. I am very proficient in math. As far as languages go, I also speak fluent Russian, Hebrew, and will begin learning German this upcoming semester.

Symposium on Islamic Finance

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:29:52 +0000

One of today’s leading Islamic scholars and Chairman of Guidance Residential’s Sharia Supervisory Board, Shaykh Muhammad Taqi Usmani talks about money as something having no intrinsic value in Islam and how this major factor begins to differentiate Islamic finance from conventional finance.

Mobile phones and banks, banking transactions future trends

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:37:37 +0000

www.globalchange.com Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs. How biometrics fingerprint technology will allow large mobile phone payments. Commissions and interest charges on loans. Impact of revenues from American Express, Visa, Delta, Access, Mastercard …

Interview with General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:27:21 +0000

Live! From Auburn Hills, MI: Wagoner Says Current Focus is on Liquidity Through 2009

Why don’t women have any general knowledge? Why don’t they care about what is going on in the world?

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:40:17 +0000

I spoke to a woman recently (no, really). She has a "Masters" in some useless arts subject. Anyway we were talking about remembrance day, poppies etc. And she thought the Somme was a battle between England and Scotland…

Lynn, R., Irwing P and Cammock, T (2002) Sex differences in general knowledge. Intelligence, ,30, 27-40.
Examines sex differences in 19 areas of general knowledge and finds women have more knowledge than men of medicine and cookery, while men have more knowledge than women of politics, history, geography, sport, finance, and science. Men have more general knowledge than women.