Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions 1. Introduction It is a fact that about 4 billion people worldwide live on less than US$2 per day (Microfinance Bulletin‚ 2008a‚ 7) and poverty is one of the major problems that is still prevailing in today’s world. Surprisingly more than 3 billion poor people seek access to basic financial services worldwide (Helms‚ 2006‚ ix) and were ignored by commercial banks for a very long time. For commercial banks the poor were seen as “unbankable” for decades
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Sustainability‚ in a broad sense‚ is the capacity of maintaining a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems. In an ecological context‚ sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes‚ functions‚ biodiversity and productivity into the future. Sustainability has become a complex term that can be applied to almost every facet of life on Earth‚ particularly the many different levels of biological
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Vincent Staples is a guy who most people do not know about‚ however his path to success is almost a miracle in itself. Vincent Staples was born in Long Beach California where he lived his childhood with his mother and father in the hood of Northern Long Beach. He grew up wanting to defy all odds and this task was even more challenging with his father in and out of the house constantly and his mother being emotionally unstable. At a young age Staples decided that he did not want to be like his father
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| |Assignment #5 | |Operationalize Sustainability | |
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Samsung for the past 3 years has been sharing their sustainable accomplishments through a sustainability report. This report demonstrates the impact Samsung had on people‚ society‚ and the environment. The structure for their sustainable report closely resembles that of an annual report. It is divided into three parts: Sustainability overview‚ Material issues‚ and Facts and figures. They monitor their accomplishments by setting benchmarks for each year. An example of these benchmarks: in 2011 they
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Corporate Sustainability: A Progress Report In cooperation with Corporate Sustainability Definition & Survey Methodology Corporate Sustainability: A Progress Report is a ’KPMG’s Climate Change & Sustainability Services practice’ research paper‚ conducted in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit. It reviews the importance of sustainability within business today and executive’s attitudes toward this issue. For the purpose of the report‚ corporate sustainability is defined as “adopting
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moved away from integration and instead to specialization‚ also known as “the industrial food system.” The deep divide between these two systems is a clear display of the rapid change in today’s demand-driven market‚ which begs us to question the sustainability of our new system. As large industrial farms maximize their land and resources for profit we stray farther and farther from the natural balanced process and in turn throw the ecosystem wildly out of harmony. Livestock
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Sustainability Review 2010 bp.com/sustainability 2 A letter from our group chief executive / 4 How BP is changing 6 Gulf of Mexico oil spill / 14 How we operate / 22 Energy future 30 Safety / 34 Environment / 38 Society Within hours of the Deepwater Horizon accident‚ BP teams were working to stop the leak. We also acted to minimize the spill’s impact on the environment by containing‚ removing and dispersing oil offshore‚ protecting the shoreline and cleaning up oil that came ashore. And we
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Madonna and Child Just until now‚ some Latin American cultures are learning to be more accepting of open sexual inclinations. I argue that for Campo’s mother‚ her religious beliefs are stronger than her love for her son‚ although she still loves him. “She hears much better than she sees”. Religion is important for Cuban people‚ and for the church being gay is something wrong‚ it is bad‚ it is sinful. His mom hears bad comments that priest and religious persons make. How sinful is a gay in front of
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What Kind of Success Should We Embrace？ Since ancient times‚ people in growing numbers have been pursuing success. When asked about what success is reflected in‚ people’s answers differ. Some people believe that enough fund and outstanding achievements embody a successful man or woman whereas others insist that success is doing something that one considers is worth doing. I am in favor that the view on whether successful or not varies from people to people and era to era and strong espouse
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