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Land of Zaree explores...: December 2010
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Land of Zaree explores. You need to land on the blog to discover the land! Sunday, December 5, 2010. I felt rather contented over the previous week to see that Pakistanis are not alone when it comes to hypocrisy, window dressing and hypocrisy. The alluring diplomats of developed countries are equally ‘immodest and cynic’ in calling their allies, friends and foes with the most coarse connotation. Funny to see that rival parties in. On one hand condemns Wikileaks being irresponsible by revealing how dirtily.
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Banking on the Poor: August 2010
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Thursday, August 19, 2010. 120 Billion Opportunity for the Poor. A few months ago I wrote a blog piece entitled Build It and They Will Come. In which I commented on an op-ed piece in the Financial Times. Concerning ways banks might help the poor. The author wrote about how more funds might be raised to assist the poor. I argued that we needed better anti-poverty infrastructure to ensure that funds are effectively deployed in the fight against poverty. 3 To work with financial institutions to provide loan...
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Banking on the Poor: September 2012
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Monday, September 17, 2012. It’s been far too long since I last posted to this blog. I have been busy developing the Banker Corps. Concept- which will provide trained college graduates to work in low income communities in the United States- with a group of students at the University of Pacific. (I will write a separate post on this later.) Meantime, I have begun another overseas project with Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders (BWB) in Kenya. Honey Care works across the entire honey value chain&...
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Banking on the Poor: April 2010
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Monday, April 26, 2010. Innovative Solutions for Addressing Global Poverty on Display at the Global Social Venture Competition. The winner of the Social Impact Assessment award was a team from UC Berkeley called WE CARE Solar that provides obstetric health facilities with solar power for lighting, mobile communications and essential medical devices. The innovative portable, plug and play solar-electric system they have developed is being distributed, installed and maintained by local market-based cap...
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Banking on the Poor: September 2011
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011. The Homeless as Theater. Two months ago I wrote a piece about Families in Distress. It was prompted by a very disturbing report done by “60 Minutes”. Sure, they are a little crazy—some even clinically so. But don’t they also have families, people who care for them? Shouldn’t we feel the same empathy for them as we do for the more “normal” homeless families struggling to make it? It is not coincidence that the play is being performed at St. Boniface, or that it should be...
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Banking on the Poor: June 2011
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Understanding the Underbanked Consumer. Why would one pay a large fee to cash a government check or pay a bill? What induces some people to pay an effective annual interest rate of 400% for a short-term secured loan? However, the un-banked must rely on so-called “alternative financial service providers” (AFS) who tailor their product offerings to be more appealing to the unbanked while those with access to banking services address their needs at lower costs and often w...The PCT s...
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Banking on the Poor: "It Takes a Village"
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Sunday, October 6, 2013. It Takes a Village". Again, a long hiatus between posts. I certainly did not expect that it would take this long to make good on the promise in my last post to write about the development of Banker Corps—now called Impact Corps—a platform for student-led microfinance organizations to bring financial services to low-income communities. The first such organization is being launched in Stockton California. Stockton Impact Corps. 3 Clients will gain greater access to traditional fina...
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Banking on the Poor: December 2010
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Thursday, December 16, 2010. Last week the Center for Global Development. As I argued in an earlier post. Posted by Daniel Kreps. Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Community Development Banker Corps. As readers of this blog will remember, I attended the SOCAP10 conference in early October and submitted an entry to the SOCAP. Challenge which, thanks to the votes of many readers, was selected as one of the winning entries and posted on Triple Pundit. Held in Ixtapa, Mexico. About 300 social entrepreneurs, f...
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Banking on the Poor: A Taste of Microfinance
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Friday, October 11, 2013. A Taste of Microfinance. As the theme “A Taste of Microfinance” implies, the highlighted ventures were food service providers. Outside the event venue two food trucks, “ Kung Fu Tacos. 8221; and “ Triple Dash 3. 8221; addressed the crowd and spoke of how her company has been able to grow into a company with $5 million in annual sales and 65 employees thanks to the support of Opportunity Fund. As I write this post I am on my way to the Lend for America Summit. It Takes a Village.
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