The Corporate Social Responsibility Distortion

by Dave Gernhard Corporations, business, CEOs, these are terms that in the modern context conjure up images of greed and corruption.  Gone is the layman who risks everything to build an industrial empire for the benefit of the consumer.  Richard Sears, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison have been replaced by Ken Lay of Enron and [...]

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Why Microfinance is not all its cracked up to be.

By Abhilash Samuel             “An unacceptably high proportion of the world’s population lives in dreadful conditions that consign them to Malthusian lives that are nasty, brutish and short”, says Norbert Kloppenburg, the senior vice president of KfW Entwicklungsbank, a microfinance institution based in Germany.[1] The alleviation of poverty through banking, or more precisely the provision [...]

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