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The power of the community

The power of the community

By Making It on 12 November, 2010

Milford Bateman argues that it is community-driven financial institutions rather than microfinance that can help poor people move out of poverty

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 18th century, agriculture, aid, banks, Basque, Brazil, business, Caja Laboral Popular, CLP, community, cooperative banks, credit institutions, economy, emergencies, enterprise development, Europe, funds, global financial crisis, governance, history, income, innovation, International, italy, job, labour, ldc, least developed countries, London, Mali, microdebt, microfinance, Milford Bateman, Nigeria, Overseas Development Institute, Oxfam America, poverty, privately owned, Second World War, social, South Africa, Spain, sustainable, UK, WWII

Entrepreneurship, capital and capitalism

Entrepreneurship, capital and capitalism

By Making It on 11 November, 2010

Ranil Dissanayake was trained as an economist and historian. He now specializes in aid effectiveness, and can also be found blogging at AidThoughts

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, aid, aidthoughts, Asia, bureaucracy, capital, capitalism, Chris Bayly, clean development, commercial farming, Dar es Salaam, development, Doing Business report, economy, entrepreneurship, financing development, geography, Haiti, Hernando De Soto, history, incentives, issue 4, labour, Marx, policy, politics, potential, power, pre-colonial, property, returns, security, stability, system, the Birth of the Modern World, The Mystery of Capital, third world, trade, World Bank

From steam engines to human consciousness

From steam engines to human consciousness

By Making It on 22 September, 2010

Industrialization will continue to be the most important avenue of future development, but Alfredo Sfeir-Younis says it needs to be about people.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged abundance, agrarian economy, Alfredi Sfeir-Younis, antibiotics, business, challenges, chile, Cho Tab Khen Zambuling, competition, consumers, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, developing countries, development, earth, empowerment, entrepreneurship, Europe, exclusion, external environment, finance, ford, freedom, GNP, happiness, history, human, human rights, impacts, independence, industrial, industrialization, interaction, intercommunication, interconnected, Issue 3, justice, labour, life, love, machines, management, managers, opportunities, owners, peace, people, Princeton University, processes, production, productivity, profits, quality of life, security, self-realization, social, solidarity, stockholders, sustainability, technology, trade, traders, UNIDO, United Nations, urban, values, wealth, workers, world, World Bank, Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation

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