Harnessing Student Potential In Microfinance
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George T. Haley
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- UNH
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- Professor
- How did you find out about the Microfinance Network?
- Invitation
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- Univ. of Texas @ Austin
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- http://www.newasianemperors.com
- Why are you here?
- The effects of micro-finance on economic development and social change interest me & Chris' invitation.
- What are you currently working on?
- The effects of India's switch to product patents in pharmaceuticals on the development of the Indian Pharma industry & a comparison of the Chinese & Indian business environments and strategic decision-making.
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I hope I can learn more about it by your posts about how it´s going on in your work.
Change ideas would be great.
Welcome!
Thaís
Regarding Mexico, that experience is not odd. Mexico's first social security system and low cost housing and medical programs for the poor were all private enterprises started by Mexican companies. The largest reforestation program in Mexico is funded and operated by CEMEX, Mexico's huge cement company. ITESM, Mexico's most prominent private university has, for decades, operated free training programs for the poor to transfer skills that help them get private sector jobs -- it even has mobil training facilities in busses that go out to small towns and villages to train on location. ITESM's students, along with the students of other Mexican universities, under guidance of the engineering school faculties also go out and collect data on Mexico's corporate and individual polluters -- no prosecution of environmental transgressors in Mexico has ever taken place without the evidence that these students collected. If you like I will try to get some names and addresses for you.
all best, George
before any micro bank owned by the poorest starts loans the vital system design chalenge is to know what has trapped the poorest and to have a conflict resolution to it that can also scale; I am not sure that has been worked out in many southern hemisphere nations but feel it has with kenya http://jamiibora.net
Years since we talked (sorry); I think you know my belief for 20 years since a job from hell I had at coopers & lybrand is that western measurements are all wrong in valuing systemic trust and sustainability, and are compounding exponential destruction en route to George Orwell's Big Brother Futures. Having visited Grameen and BRAC 3 times in the last 18 months I feel that Bangladesh is the only place with scaled up networking systems audited for true sustainability investment. So does my father who brings his half century perspective from The Economist http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
There seem to be 2 choices for my friend Dr Yunus though best would be to connect them with urgency.
Spend one more year 09/10 trying to help american people take back banking and everything that needs community sustainable modeling from wall street and their big brothers. Or just focus on bangladesh national strategy with India and your area of speciality china. I personally wouldnt recommend a 69 year od to spend 300 days travelling round the world trying to save USA and Europeans from the folie grandeur of their banking and professional systems but he seems determined to do that while youth or Obama may still want to expliore how 10 times more economics methods work when you go micro instead of macro. Interested if you know anyone in your circles who can help. chris washington dc 301 881 1655