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A Global Conversation to Join
Author- Professor Muhammad Yunus Published on- The Huffington Post (US) Date- October 9, 2012 We live in a momentous time in history: The distance between the impossible and the possible is shrinking. Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful chan...
Africa After Rio+20
Author- Professor Muhammad Yunus & Michel Camdessus Published on- The World Post Date- June 22, 2012 It is clear that Rio+20 has not delivered what many of us had hoped. Twenty years after the world committed itself to increased efforts to tackle inequality, hunger and environmental destruction at the first Earth Summit, we seem to be moving in the wrong direction. It was a major disappointment that Rio+20 saw a lack of progress on defined and measurable sustainable development goals...
When Stretching A Dollar Means Saving A Life
Author- Professor Muhammad Yunus & Gro Brundtland Published on- The Huffington Post (US) Date- September 27, 2011 As leaders gathered in New York last week for the United Nations General Assembly, much of the discussion focused on how to do more with limited resources. Aid from wealthy countries to fight disease and poverty in the developing world has saved countless lives over the past decade. But in these hard economic times, we cannot blindly rely on donor governments to endlessly ...
To Catch a Dollar Reveals Real Life on a Large Scale
Author- Professor Muhammad Yunus Published on- The World Post Date- March 29, 2011 I’ve read that two U.S. networks are launching TV shows based on entrepreneurs competing for money for their business ideas. “NBC’s America’s Next Great Restaurant features aspiring restaurateurs trying to impress a panel of judges to win financing for a new chain. And ABC has reintroduced Shark Tank, in which entrepreneurs try to get backing from a panel of venture capitalists who ...
It's Time to Put Affordable Health Care for the Poor Within Reach
Author- Professor Muhammad Yunus Published on- The World Post Date- May 23, 2009 During these times when many of the poor are struggling for a livelihood, health care seems less affordable than ever to so many of the impoverished. A family illness already is the primary force shoving people back into poverty. It’s time for us to offer them the tools to push back. A major part of the problem is that medical progress today typically arrives in partnership with high cost. As a result,...
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