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Coming to America Grameen, one of the world s best-known microlenders, is out to prove that small loans can make a difference for the poor in developed countries, too. |
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How Credit Can Save the World Here's the remarkable story of the Grameen Bank, which recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, and offers many insights and lessons on how businesses thrive and grow. |
IDB America
March 2003
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From coffee to honey -- and profits Mexican coffee growers were finding it harder and harder to make a living with this traditional crop, which is trading at some of the lowest prices in a century. So some have decided to try producing honey, with remarkable results. |
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Muhammad Yunus: Microcredit Missionary This economics professor wasn't afraid to turn the rules of banking upside down. As a result, he inspired a whole category of lending and propelled to the top of a powerful financial institution. |
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Trust the People, Test the Program A Mexican economist talks about why Mexico's Oportunidades anti-poverty program has succeeded where others have failed. |
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Microfinance: America's Bank to the Poor Teams Up With H&R Block For-profit Grameen America will target under-banked. |
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Microfinance: Banking for the Poor Although microfinance appears to be a promising way to provide financial services to the poor, there is considerable debate about its future. |
IDB America
January 2004 |
A better use of resources Ricardo Santiago, manager of the IDB's Regional Operations Department 1, which includes Chile, spoke with IDBAmerica about lessons learned in that country's road concession program. He also speaks of how to streamline processes. |
IDB America
February 2006 |
IDB Expands Support for Private Sector The bank's newly appointed Private Sector Coordinator discusses new challenges and responses to Latin America's and the Caribbean's private sector financial needs. |
IDB America
March 2003
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More than a loan Community organizations in Mexico's poorest states prove they can prosper with access to credit and technical advice. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2005
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Like the Funds? Love the Advisor! Investors in T. Rowe Price funds do well, but investors in the advisor do even better. |
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Can Technology Eliminate Poverty? Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus thinks so. And he explains why changing the world is a lot more fun than just making money. |
IDB America
June 2007
Alexandra Russell-Bitting |
An Interview with Daniel Zelikow An interview with the new IDB executive vice president about about his background, his views of the bank and his approach to the realignment. |
IDB America
September 2001
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Social exclusion: Is there a role for the IDB? IDB executive vice president K. Burke Dillon recently spoke about the IDB's commitment to social equity and inclusion... |
IDB America
February 2006
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Clay Doves Take Flight Ancient craft traditions help indigenous women in southern Mexico preserve their cultural identities while entering the modern world. |
IDB America
July 2004 |
IDBAmerica Announces Scholarship Competition The competition, open to university students in any of the Inter-American Development Bank's borrowing member countries, is inviting submissions of original articles describing an innovative initiative that successfully tackles a social problem. |
IDB America
June 2004
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Breaking the Ice for Latin America's Bond Markets Inter-American Development Bank issues first bonds in region's local currencies, made possible by a new flexibility in the global financial system and growing sophistication and depth of many of Latin America's financial markets. |
The Motley Fool
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A Helping Hand Mohammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize last week for pursuing a revolutionary idea -- that the poorest of the poor can help themselves to self-employment with tiny loans. |
