Yunus November
futurehistorian.tv
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/press/SOCR2006.htm
Microloans Championed By Nobel Laureate Top 110 Million
Washington, DC, November 1, 2006-Three weeks after the Norwegian
Nobel Committee announced that Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and
the bank he founded thirty years ago won the Nobel Peace Prize, the
Microcredit Summit announced that more than 113 million clients
received tiny loans last year to start or expand small businesses, 82
million of whom were among the world's poorest people. The Nobel
Laureate and Grameen Bank founder serves on the Microcredit Summit
Campaign's Executive Committee. The Campaign's annual report
provides a crucial benchmark for the growth of the field. A program of
the U.S. anti-poverty group RESULTS Educational Fund, the Microcredit
Summit sought to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families
with microcredit by the end of 2005, a goal it now expects to reach by
the end of 2006.
According to Yunus biographer, David Bornstein, the progress of the
Microcredit Summit Campaign "represents one of the few times that a
major development promise is going to be fulfilled-and remarkably
close to schedule." Campaign officials said that new goals for 2015
will be launched at the Global Microcredit Summit to be held November
12-15, 2006 in Halifax, Canada.
The Campaign was launched in 1997, when only 7.6 million very poor
families were reached worldwide with microloans. Between 1997 and 2005
the Campaign's overall growth has been 978 percent, averaging 34
percent per year. Globally, 847 microfinance practitioners submitted
their data in 2006. These 847 institutions had 88 percent of all the
poorest clients reported.
The 2006 report includes data gathered from more than 3,100
institutions worldwide and finds that of the 82 million poorest
reached, 84 percent are women. .
"Supporters are exploring the possibility of organizing Nobel Peace
Prize viewing parties around the world," said Daley-Harris.
Information of the Nobel Peace Prize viewing parties will be available
on the following websites: www.microcreditsummit.org;
www.grameenfoundation.org; and www.grameen.com.
relay source:
The Microcredit Summit Campaign 440 First Street, NW, Suite 460
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202 637 9600 Fax: 202 637 3566 E-mail:
in...@microcreditsummit.org
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Next: Are you aware that Grameen brand is the most popular co-creation
of all time? : micro entrepreneurs its networks sustain include
Grameen Bank, now one of the largest banks in Bangladesh with over 5M
micro-credit borrowers. ;the mobile phone company Grameen Phone
targeting the rural poor which has become not only the largest phone
company in the country, but also the largest company and tax payer!
More than 200,000 micro-entrepreneur "phone ladies" are now operating
in villages all over Bangladesh renting out phone minutes to fellow
villagers. The Microfinace model that Grameen has done most to open
source around the world is just completing a 7-year goal to remove 100
million families from extreme poverty
Mid Right : NOBEL map: 30 years of alumni hurrahs now that "economics
times peace" is recognised as the hi-trust gravity demanded by and
producing cross-cultural globalisation of a sustainable kind
Mid Left: 2.5 hour video debriefings on how Yunus Star is Born. "What
the world says about GRAMEEN "peace-economics" dedicated to women,
and the childrens' game of future consequences
Bottom Right: Help us link to who's been socially networking longest
around Yunus and gravitating what entrepreneurial revolutionary (eg
no-loss company; for profit charity) collaborations for society and
sustainability
Bottom Right: Some clues for investigative journalists and the highly
curious.Note how Grameen likes to open source dialogue, and reports on
what help and collaborations Yunus most wants so that we can all
rejoice in ending child and family poverty, at the fastest pace human
goodwill can compound.
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