MicroCredit ... Community-up Economics ... Human Capitalism

[christopher macrae]

It might be worth adding that a really big scoop will be what Bill Gates changes when he setlles in full time to Gates Foundation. It's pretty clear he is going to go micro-up or whatever you want to call it - he's trailed the message at world economic forum , and in his speech to his alma mater at Harvard, and the diary of meetings/experiments between Gates key People and Yunus's is long and deep

 

Dad's as confident that Bangladesh is rising as he was about Japan in 1962's Economist

 

If a tavern's function room is not the setting to discuss this, we'd be delighted any other time to share what we have found out from what's streaming out of Dhaka

 

chris macrae http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

Yunus 1000 bookclub http://smbaworld.com/id8.html

dc 301 881 1655

Peter Burgess <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Dr. Bishop

I think we originally met early on during the UNDP Year of
MicroFinance ... and it was a pleasure to see you again at the NYU
Financial Access Initiative event a few weeks back. If you stay
interested in microfinance I am fairly sure we will meet again,
because it is an area I have followed for almost as long as Dr. Yunus
... and certainly since very early in my relief and development sector
experience starting in the 1970s.

I have a deep belief that development must succeed in the community if
it is to succeed at all ... and this is something I think I share with
Dr. Yunus. Community centric development seems to be the best way
forward ... and microfinance is a useful part of this.

It is also my reason for being very interested in the malaria funding
that has suddenly appeared on the scene after several decades of
neglect. There are now a lot of interventions for malaria related work
... a lot of activity, but how much benefit. For me this has
translated into an expanding dialog about performance metrics for
malaria (see attached) and deployment of some simple cost
effectiveness analysis for community level interventions. I am also
implicated in the Muturi / Novak paper that has recently appeared in
the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene special Malaria
edition. (also attached).

As a former cost accountant and CFO, I am appalled at what the public
sector and the international relief and development sector thinks are
"performance metrics" ... not to mention the academic community ...
but what do I know? In an attempt to bring some respect to accountancy
in the public space, I am developing a system of Social Benefit
Accountancy that responds to the need for something beyond profit to
measure economic performance.

I believe global issues are very important, and am encouraging dialog
about many different aspects of our global society through the
Collaboration Cafe movement which we are growing now in New York.
There will be another meeting of the New York Collaboration Cafe on
April 15th, 6.30 pm at Pete's Tavern ... it costs around $25 to $30
depending on the group!

The Grameen ideas about Social Business, not to mention BRAC and ASA
also from Bangladesh doing valuable community level work are
initiatives worth talking about ... and we need to talk a lot more
about how and why there is so much war and violence in places like
Somalia, and DRC and Kenya and Chad and ... the list goes on.

It would be great if you could come ...

Sincerely

Peter Burgess
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Peter Burgess
The Transparency and Accountability Network: Tr-Ac-Net in New York
www.tr-ac-net.org
IMMC - The Integrated Malaria Management Consortium Inc.
The Tr-Ac-Net blogs ... start at http://tracnetvision.blogspot.com
917 432 1191 or 212 772 6918 pete...@gmail.com

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