Archive for the ‘social’ tag
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Microloans, microfinance, microcredit, banking and insurance
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.
Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change
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 …
SuwestTrust.com: Friends and Family Loan Mortgage Program :: Social Personal Peer Lending
heard about the national credit crisis. During this time of national crisis have you ever considered becoming a bank? Thats right; you can become a bank for a friend or family member. … low interest rate loans mortgage officer broker investment finance money economy personal peer lending bailout crisis custodian securing family loan to residential home 1st time buyer borrowers escrow middleman relationship informal real estate down payment assistance feel good bad credit banks banking …
Muhammad Yunus – The Social Business Model
and founder of The Grameen Bank, speaks about his new book Creating a World Without Poverty. Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, established in Bangladesh in 1983. Dr. Yunus founded the bank with the objective of helping poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound principles of finances so they can help themselves. The Grameen Bank has advanced to the forefront of a burgeoning world …
24. Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance
Financial Markets (ECON 252) Professor Shiller, in his final lecture, reviews some of the most important tools for individual risk management. Significant inequality in domestic and international communities has created a need for social insurance programs, such as those created in Germany in the late 1800s. The tax system, bankruptcy laws, and government insurance programs are used to manage risk of personal wealth. However, each of these inventions must take account of psychological …
Symposium on Islamic Finance
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
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 …
Muhammad Yunus – Micro-Credit Financing for Beggars
Complete video at: fora.tv Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of The Grameen Bank, describes his successful micro-credit financing program catering to the unlikeliest of clients: street beggars. This program was recorded in joint collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California and Link TV. —– Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of The Grameen Bank, speaks about his new book Creating a World Without Poverty. Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing …
3. Technology and Invention in Finance
Financial Markets (ECON 252) Technology and innovation underlie finance. In order to manage risks successfully, particularly long-term, we must pool large amounts of risk among many, diverse people and overcome barriers such as moral hazard and erroneous framing. Inventions such as insurance contracts and social security, and information technology all the way from such simple things as paper, and the postal service to modern computers have helped to manage risks and to encourage financial …
Irish Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan speaks of Emergency Budget Measures 2/2
April 8th 2009: Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan speaks to Eamon Keane of Newstalk 106-108 FM about the measures taken in yesterday’s ‘emergency’ budget. Links: Irish Examiner Budget 2009 coverage: www.irishexaminer.com What is a Toxic Asset?: Excellent YouTube Video explaining the term!: www.youtube.com Brian Lenhian Wiki Entry: en.wikipedia.org Newstalk website: newstalk.ie
