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Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank - Bangladesh (left), and Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip, founder and managing director of the CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions...

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 913059 [Title] => Economist tags microfinance as poverty trap, not solution [Summary] =>

Microfinance is a poverty trap and not a solution to poverty, according to a leading economic professor.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 672970 [Title] => Nobel laureate Yunus loses legal fight to keep job [Summary] =>

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus lost his final court appeal Tuesday to stay as managing director of pioneering microlender Grameen Bank, which he founded nearly three decades ago to lift many Bangladeshis out of poverty.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-05 16:48:45 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 670366 [Title] => Microfinance industry needs to implement reforms, reorientation [Summary] =>

The anti-poverty business formation known as microfinance is under attack worldwide, but efforts to get it back on track are afoot.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 577077 [Title] => Microcredit and trust in the poor [Summary] =>

Former PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) undersecretary Clarence Paul Oaminal messaged me on Facebook if there was anything good to propose to the new administration.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136085 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1226573 [AuthorName] => Chris Malazarte [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 478202 [Title] => Business groups to lend money to SMEs through microfinancing [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines – Businessmen have committed to helping Filipinos affected by the global economic crunch by lending money for capital to small scale entrepreneurs through microfinance activities.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1480108 [AuthorName] => Ma. Elisa Osorio  [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 445132 [Title] => Italy's Lombardy to host 'bank for the poor' [Summary] => ROME (Xinhua) -- Italy's Lombardy region would be happy to host a "bank for the poor" proposed by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, Regional President Roberto Formigoni said on Tuesday. [DatePublished] => 2009-03-04 08:38:18 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 38552 [Title] => Capitol set to release loans to poor women [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369703 [Title] => $100 Of Hope... And A New Life [Summary] => Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Queen Sofia of Spain and hundreds of campaigners met for a summit here in Halifax, Canada last week where they announced their lofty goal of attempting to lift 175 million of the world’s poorest people out of poverty by 2015.

Campaigners at the second Global Microcredit Summit, which was held in the east coast Canadian city between November 12-15, said the use of tiny business loans known as microcredit had already helped lift tens of millions of people out of poverty and improve their livelihoods.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1435344 [AuthorName] => Justin Cole [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 363776 [Title] => Grameen banking can work in RP, says lawmaker [Summary] => A Liberal Party congressman hailed Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer, for winning the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, saying Grameen banking developed by Yunus was a non-conventional alternative to poverty alleviation that can work in developing countries like the Philippines.

Bukidnon first district Rep. Nereus Acosta, LP secretary-general, said Yunus’ Nobel Peace Prize was a re-affirmation of the growing global consciousness of innovative approaches to poverty alleviation.
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