YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 4, 2014
Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. With consumer demand booming in inland Asian cities, however, road, rail and air transport networks will take on greater prominence over sea transport.
thebarefootvc
JUNE 15, 2014
A network of accessible agents throughout the country allows people to redeem money transferred to them. Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans.
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A Crowded Space
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. The correct answer is to closely manage the overall network – promote the good people and kick out the bad people. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.
thebarefootvc
JUNE 15, 2014
A network of accessible agents throughout the country allows people to redeem money transferred to them. Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2012
The concept and first implementation of modern microfinancing is generally credited to Dr. Mohammad Yunus who, back in the 1970s, began lending to impoverished women in Jobra, Bangladesh, while teaching economics at Chittagong University. He went on to found the aforementioned Grameen Bank (“Grameen” means “village” in Bengali).
YoungUpstarts
MAY 7, 2012
13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Elizabeth Sabol-Jones at Inspirist , Jan.
Business Plan Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Two examples of mass-scale social enterprise are Mexico-based Gente Nueva and Bangladesh-based BRAC. This includes the idea of networked social entrepreneurship, which aims to achieve greater impact by creating a network of collaborators and partners. Watch an interview with Gente Nueva’s social entrepreneur, Jose Hernandez.
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