If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we ll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world...
By their nature, corporations are not equipped to deal with social problems. It rsquo;s not because business executives are selfish, greedy, or bad. The problem lies with the very nature of business. Even more profoundly, it lies with the concept of business that is at the center of...
Is capitalism OK? Yes, but this capitalism stands on one leg ndash; it rsquo;s very unstable, it runs into problems, it doesn rsquo;t move very well. It needs to add a humanitarian leg.
These financial, food, environmental are not separate crises. You have to adjust the root causes than adjusting all of them. The root causes are the wrong structure, the capitalism structure that we have. We have to redesign the structure we are operating in, which is wrong...
At its worst, capitalism is a big sucking machine that takes juice from the bottom and cycles it to the top. At the top, life is good. But at the bottom, it is desperate and there is no margin for error. Sadly, those at the top don rsquo;t...
You became greedy and you created this financial crisis. You turned this into a casino.
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96 of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are...
When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman s second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find a bed for herself and her family. A man has an entirely...
If you are born into a poor family, if you are a woman you have seen the worst of poverty. In a cultural way in the families in Bangladesh it s the women who eats last. So if you have a scarcity in the family hellip; she...
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of encouraging family planning practices through...
