Ten of us have just celebrated Dr Yunus's 69th birthday with a week of dialogues.
Anywhere we could reach in Dhaka -including Grameen (Dr Yunus for 150 minutes, Yunuscentre, health, energy, education, internet and mobile for poor, international microcredit trust ), BRAC , British Council - we discussed the belief that Dhaka is the sustainability investment epicentre of the world, and that all youth ambassadors of sustainability need encouragement to explore how to connect dhaka's micro economics maps.
Actions include - aim of launching youth ambassador 5000 network in time for freshers week 09; and encouraging Dhaka to publish the first leaflet celebrating Bangladesh's worldwide contributions to sustainability economics. Already, social business and future capiatalism catalogues prove microeconomics system designs to be 10 times more economic than anything normalcy's MBAs and Wall Streets rule over.
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for joining the conversation and making such great comments. Yunus and many volunteers worked incredibly hard to change cultural/gendered identities that oppressed women in Bangledesh, and cultural change is not always bad, though di…
I teach a graduate course in microfinance and am a strong believer in continuous, self-education. One member of this site asked if I could put together a tutorial. I thought I'd invite others who wish to follow the same path and learn together.