Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus Author: Muhammad Yunus Copyright: 2003 Introduction Banker to the Poor narrates the life of Muhammad Yunus and his conception of the micro-lending institution‚ Grameen Bank‚ to provide help to the poor. Yunus had a dream of providing help the poor to be able to help themselves. He believes that if the poor can receive financial help in the form of very small loans and are taught some basic principles of financial management‚ they will learn
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Environmental Impacts and Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism The paper intends to study the environmental impacts and sustainable development of rural tourism. As Wall (2006) mentions‚ there are large quantities of research papers on economic impacts of tourism. Besides‚ considerable statistics greatly ease the analyses and measurements. The environmental impacts of tourism have been paid more and more attention in recent years; but due to debate on indicators and some other objective barriers
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work of a well functioning Government. Traditional measures of growth‚ especially in developing countries in the Balkans‚ may be misleading in that they fail to account for the destruction of war that often accompanies spurts in temporary and unsustainable economic growth.’’ Significant Barriers to Sustainable Economic Development in Macedonia Introduction Macedonia is a diminutive high land‚ country isolated state neighboring Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ Greece‚ Kosovo and Serbia. The majority of its
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The different lifestyles and experiences‚ of rich and poor people in the 19th century Britain. The quality of life in the Victorian times depended on whether people were rich or poor. Wealthy people enjoyed a good and easy life‚ but on the other hand poorer people had a rough and hard life‚ often ending up in the workhouse or early death. By 1851 British society divided into social classes. The aristocracy were powerful and wealthy. The middle class‚ who ran the businesses‚ were ambitious and
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I strongly believe that developing countries should continue to receive International Aid. Nutritional food‚ health supplies‚ educational support and agricultural development are essential for every nation. How the International Aid will be delivered to the poor countries‚ however‚ should be monitored by the strict standards of the official international assistance. Helping those in needs is the noblest mission. The targets were set in 2000‚ as part of the United Nations Millennium Development
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ES 1 PREAMBLE This document serves as an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the proposed road to Fatima in Chikwawa district. The project runs from Thabwa (near Shire River) to Fatima. The road has a lot of bridges and culverts since it is near the Shire River. The project proponent is Chikwawa Town Assembly with Asian Grant Aid estimated at US$ 7Million. The total length of the road is about 22 Km and is a dusty road. There are 25 bridges and culverts
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In Panem‚ The capitol which is the richest dominate the districts which are very poor and the result is we can see the inequality between them. This is the view that we can see with our bare eyes that the capitol’s live is diffrent from the district’s live‚ this diffrence reveal in many ways throughout the novel. The rich control the poor so does in hunger games‚ the capitol control the districts by making a hunger games in the reaping day and help the one who win with some foods. The candidates
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After viewing the film ‘Born Rich’‚ which profiled young adults who were born into the upper 1-4% of the wealthiest families in the country‚ I was kind of surprised to see that the majority of them did not like for it to be known that they came from money and still wanted to work for their own money. Also I found it classy that the parents insisted that even though they had inherited all this money‚ they were still responsible for doing something with their lives‚ and could not depend primarily on
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get hard and challenging. It is also used for education‚ social security‚ health‚ and other things needed in our country. The wealthy are most likely able to afford these increases in taxes. This doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t tax the less wealthy/poor and middle class. That’s why their taxed less‚ cause they don’t have as much financial health that other people may have. Other countries around the world tax high and are doing well in growth. Since the 1970s‚ income for the wealthy people have increased
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As we all know‚ each country has its own economic development that can be affected both positively and negatively. When a country experiences a negative growth‚ it can be referred to by saying that the economy is “shrinking” and it is associated with economic recession and economic depression. Let’s bring to focus on Indonesia’s economics growth. With domestic consumption known as the major driving forces behind any country’s economics growth‚ being a developing country‚ Indonesia must be able
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