poverty

Measuring GDP by How Bright a Country Is at Night

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:39:09 -0400

International Development Design Summit

Fast Company Calendar — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:35:30 -0400

Most global-poverty workshops share a tedious format -- lots of yakking, little action.

Young Minds vs. Ancient Problems: Imagine Cup 2009 Winners Announced

Clay Dillow — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:39:28 -0400

Got an old problem? Put a young mind to it. Microsoft's Imagine Cup has announced its 2009 winners, with Oregon's MultiPoint Web edging out the other 14 U.S. finalists in a competition with the lofty aim of tackling United Nations Millennium Development Goals: like ending poverty and hunger, curbing HIV and AIDS, and improving maternal health.

Avon Calling: Could Beauty Be a Path Out of Poverty?

Jeff Chu — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:40:39 -0400

"No! No! No!" Oxford business professor Linda Scott does not use Avon products. In fact, she says with a smile, "One of the worst things that ever happened to me is that a friend of mine started selling Avon." But she believes her research in South Africa could prove a fascinating hypothesis: that becoming an Avon lady could help poor women in developing nations knock on prosperity's door.

The Poverty Problem: Pinpricks of Insight From Rimini, Italy

Charles Fishman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:55:50 -0400

Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with smart, worldly people, and there were a half-dozen moments that caught my attention.

The Poverty Problem: Field Notes From a Global Summit in Rimini, Italy

Charles Fishman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:36:18 -0400

I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing in Rimini, Italy, although I’d come a quarter the way around the globe to get there; my puzzlement aside, it’s a lovely spot to spend the weekend.

Rimini is the kind of small, surprising Italian city that most Americans never hear of, but that feels instantly comfortable. It’s a resort town on Italy’s east coast, with a wide flat beach running for miles, the gray Adriatic Sea on one side, and dozens of hotels, bars and restaurants on the other. It’s like a lot of east coast beach towns in the U.S., with signs in Italian.

Bloggers Influence And Shape Opinion

Kelly Jad'on — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:58:20 -0400

October 15th is a day recognized around the world as Blog Action
Day. An annual nonprofit event, this year's 2008 theme is Poverty.
The event's goal is to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and
videocasters, by posting about the same issue on the same day.
Thousands of blogs post and millions of readers are reached. By

So what happened?

Jeff Mowatt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:01:13 -0400

I join a site about technology, take the option to start a blog spend half
an hour typing and linking and it just disappears.

have I come to the right place?

Ideas like Kiva

Jeff Mowatt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:09:14 -0400

Kiva set the concept of P2P finance in motion, without doubt.

C4 world is another I've come across in my virtual travels, an org from Europe:

http://www.myc4.com/Portal/Default.aspx

Then there's Zopa

http://uk.zopa.com/ZopaWeb/

Even more interesting to me is the concept of asset based finance rather than debt based microcredit. It comes from a former City of London regulator whose ideas came long before the sub-prime crisis.

http://www.opencapital.net/

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The Fourth Chair

randulo randulos — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:35:46 -0500

Today, I had four chairs that "required some assembly" delivered. The first one took about 20 minutes to put together. The fourth chair was done is about 4 minutes.

Most creative mind?

randulo randulos — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:39:13 -0500

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Tuesday Feb 19th at 12 Noon EST (17h GMT) Conference Call

randulo randulos — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:27:26 -0500

Where and when indeed? Your ideas and comments are needed on this subject. You can call in from any phone:

Call (724) 444-7444
Enter 22062# 1#

Join this call and you might just change someone's life.

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Where and when is the next KIVA.ORG going to happen

randulo randulos — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:46:10 -0500

I've asked the question everywhere, I'll ask it here. In order to answer, you need to understand what makes KIVA.ORG unique.

Kiva is funded by tax deductible donations and grants.

Loans do NOT pay interest, except in the feeling of helping others thrive through hard work.

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