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Muhammad Yunus on Microfinance Prospect

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Muhammad Yunus made a passionate talk at the 17th Microcredit Summit. He argues the potential of microfinance on poverty reduction.

Reference
CGAP Microfinance Gateway – Microcredit Summit Campaign
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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