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Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism
Yunus, Muhammad - 2007 - 1. ed.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and he tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the...
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Die Armut besiegen : [das Programm des Friedensnobelpreisträgers]
Yunus, Muhammad - 2008
2006 erhielt M. Yunus den Friedensnobelpreis für die Gründung der Grameen-Banks, die durch die Vergabe von Kleinstkrediten, vorrangig an Dorfbewohnerinnen, wirksam Armut bekämpfen, nachzulesen in M. Yunus: "Für eine Welt ohne Armut" (hier zuletzt ID 52/06) und bei P. Spiegel (BA 2/07). Hier...
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A corporate social entrepreneurship approach to market-based poverty reduction
Zaefarian, Reza; Tasavori, Misagh; Ghauri, Pervez N. - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 51 (2015) 2, pp. 320-334
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Innovative business approaches for the reduction of extreme poverty and marginality?
Baumüller, Heike; Ladenburger, Christine; Braun, … - 2011
Extreme poverty is an immense political and market failure, wasting the potential of hundreds of millions of people. Investing in the creation of markets that include the extreme poor and marginalized should thus not only be considered as a charitable activity, but promises high returns on...
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Identifying Social Entrepreneurs Serving the Poor at the Base of the Pyramid
George, Abraham M. - 2010
The concept of social entrepreneurship as a characterization of social responsibility for business organizations has … segment of the society. Yet, there is no consensus within these communities as to what constitutes social entrepreneurship …
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Helping the poor help themselves : social enterprise and Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845
McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena A. - 2024 - Draft: August 2024
In the decade before the Great Famine, Ireland experienced a boom in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Taking a social … turbulent period in Irish history. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a legal means that could lessen the burden on …
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Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business : Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval to the Modern
Avallone, Paola (ed.); Strangio, Donatella (ed.) - 2024
Chapter 1. Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business - Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval … Banks -- Chapter 11. Institution and practices of social assistant: Monte di Pietà of Rome -- Part III. Microfinance … -- Chapter 12. Endowed Charities: The Microfinance System Used by Charitable Institutions in Catalonia (18th century) -- Chapter …
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Microfinance, poverty and the social economy of empowerment
Dash, Anup - In: Social innovation, the social economy and world …, (pp. 83-103). 2009
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The ethical crisis in microfinance : issues, findings, and implications
Hudon, Marek; Sandberg, Joakim - In: Business ethics quarterly : the journal of the Society … 23 (2013) 4, pp. 561-589
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