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at least 4 times sir fazle abed integrated another finanial service solution in his quest to change value chains in village, 200000 villages, nationally, globally, virtually
here is his description of an addition from 1999 which won the noble economics prize for academic revision of past theories in 2019 cf mit poverty lab
scale is about ambition if you are
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ambitious then then I suppose in order
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to meet your ambition you would go for scale
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scale because you can do good
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work in small community and be satisfied
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with it but I was more ambitious I
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wanted to change Bangladesh
scale can
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also be done by small activities and
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then having multiple actors
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replicating it throughout the country
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that can also be done but then you have
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to find other people following you and
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replicating your work as well and then
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in the world ....
so that is one kind of
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scale that has happened in Bangladesh through a series of leaps
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for example in microfinance when we
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started microfinance in 1980 microfinance is not
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very well known and then in 1983
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came Grameen Bank another organization
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similar to us and they focused their
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attention on just financial services and
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nothing else at a nationwide level until 1996 and yunus the founder of
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grameen Bank did a lot
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of global advocacy to try to
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take back finance all over the world
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so as a result what is happening is that
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microfinance models have tested
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almost every country's commitment to lives matter ...financial
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services for the poor as one of the ways
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of alleviating poverty so that was done
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not by one single organization making it
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really large program but multiple
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organizations in many countries expanding
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microfinance and having an impact on
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poverty
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we need to break the cycle of poverty
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somewhere breaking the cycle of poverty
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means that you commit to the next
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generation of children if they get
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better education better health... i
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then they'll come out of poverty so we
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are looking at providing quality
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education to children we are looking at
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providing better nutrition or nutrition
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education to mothers so that their
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children get better nutrition so the
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next generation is healthier has better
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education so poverty can ultimately be
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reduced in societies so education
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nutrition health opportu creating
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opportunities by training people in
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various kinds of skills so these are
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important issues and we are concerned
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with that
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... we were looking at what do
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the poor people want from us to the need
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better seeds to grow a better food or
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hope or how could they could we improve
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their productivity and we found that
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many women who produce vegetables didn't
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have an access to a good seed pocket
03:41
seed multiplication was not there and
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they couldn't find good seeds in the
03:45
market so we went to the seed production
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first of all vegetable seeds and then
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we went into hybrid
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rice seeds joint venture with
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China with Australia to produce high
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quality seeds upon whether she's poor
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can have access to high-quality seeds
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and that has also had an impact on
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productivity or our agriculture over
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time so these are important important
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now next generation of enterprises which
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could provide support to breath could be
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in private education there are state
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education in Bangladesh is very poor so
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there are parents who are looking for
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quality education for their children but
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even lower middle class even even poorer
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people now having to pay out for private
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tuition private tutors to teach the
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children in order to pass exams so if
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they're ready to put in a five to ten
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dollars a month could we provide instead
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of free education could we provide a
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quality primary education by charging
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them ten dollars a month or fifteen
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dollars a month could we provide that so
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we are now looking at a possible
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enterprise and quality education for
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low-income people
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we have our budget is about a billion
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dollars now 700 billion dollars come
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from revenue come from all our
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businesses and what 300 dollars comes
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from donors sell others
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so what 70% is self-funded and 30% donor
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funded
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well it hasn't impacted a great deal yet
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but one you know when you talk about a
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blogger being killed in Bangladesh means
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that there is a lot of sort of
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intolerance intolerant religion is
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becoming quite a force in our society so
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I just hope that we can keep it under
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under control and still go on providing
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improvement in the lives of women
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because we've been helping have not had
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a sort of picture cage will be strong in
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Bangladesh and in Houla South Asia and
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we need to do some more other find ways
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of gender equality in our society for
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our own good not not because we want to
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be fair to women but for our own
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societies code we need equality of men
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and women
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ending extreme poverty: it is possible to do it but you must leap forward serially when the time is right
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that we have shown in brac in 1999 we
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did a study of what was what what groups
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of people in Bangladesh are not having
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access to financial services we found
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that the poorest 10% of the Bangladeshis
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don't have access to financial
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microfinance and then we found another
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thing that there are a group of people
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who are not poor but who are not rich
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enough to go to a bank to start a small
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business the small and medium
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enterprises were not getting money from
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banks nor where they've poor enough to
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get money from buck from microfinance
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organizations so they were missed out
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they were the missing middle and they
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were there are another group which are
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very poor the poorest 10% who did didn't
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have access to finance so we started a
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program for the ultra poor we called it
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so it's not just bike financial services
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like giving those to people but giving
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grants so we have got a program which is
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which which is focused on the poorest
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10% of Bangladesh's
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families they want five four million
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families who are really poor and we are
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we have now reached about 1.6 billion
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families and there are four elements in
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that program one is giving transfer an
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asset not a loan but a grant we give
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also a monthly stipend in order for them
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to survive we give them healthcare for
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the for the recipient family and we sent
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their children to school and we hold
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their hands and give them a coaching to
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be able to manage resources so this
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program goes on for two years and what
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has been done is so after two years the
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program they go out a program they go
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into our bikes a finance program they
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can borrow money then provide
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program and then improve their
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conditions then we found that over the
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period of time in the last ten years we
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have been doing this program the women
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who who came as an ultra poor have
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graduated from ultra poverty and the
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government and continues to improve over
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the whole period of time so this is one
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program that we are now promoting
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throughout the world which could be done
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to get very poor people out of poverty
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and it has been replicated in ten other
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countries and all of them and they have
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been also they have also done our cities
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the randomized controlled trials to see
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whether or not it works in other
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cultures and six country studies by MIT
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and Yale was published yes last year in
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the science magazine and all showed
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improvement in the lives of the very
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poorest if you provide the same kind of
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services that that prac initially
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promoted somehow the very poorest to the
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poor never had that big push and once
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you get to give the big push and they
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see that their own action is changing
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their own condition the Can go on working
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harder to try and get it cut themselves
out of poverty
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at brac we were ambitious we
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wanted to change at Bangladesh scale -this can
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also be done by small activities and
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then having multiple actors sort of
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replicating it throughout the country
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that can also be done but then you have
00:56
to find other people following you and
00:58
replicating your work as well and they
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in the world so I so that one kind of
01:05
scale that has happened in Bangladesh around 1980
01:08
for example in microfinance when we
01:13
started microfinance microfinance which was not
01:16
very well known and then
01:19
came Grameen Bank in 1983 another organization
01:22
similar to us and they focused their
01:25
attention on just financial services while we already a decade into building health and education -so brac did all three
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- for over a decade muhammad yunus did microfinance village circles in bangladesh
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he also did a lot of
global advocacy -the clinto family visited yunus around 1989 before bill clinton became us president
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so yunus sought to take microcredit all over the world
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---- as a result microcredit summit was launched in 1997 and
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microfinance started to test where lives mattered to leaders around the world
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almost every country started trying it as hope of a new millennium rose in 1990s
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to be clear bangladesh services for the poor evolved in villages with no access to electricity, where all communications and trust building from person to person as one as one of the ways
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of alleviating poverty so that was done
01:55
not by one single organization making it
01:59
really large program but multiple
02:02
organization in many countries expanding
02:05
microfinance and having an impact on
02:08
poverty
02:13
we need to break the cycle of poverty
02:16
somewhere breaking the cycle of poverty
02:20
means that you have to the next
02:22
generation of children if they get
02:25
better education better now issues and
02:27
then they'll come out of poverty so we
02:31
are looking at providing quality
02:33
education to children we are looking at
02:38
providing better nutrition or nutrition
02:42
education to mothers so that their
02:44
children get better nutrition so the
02:47
next generation is healthier has better
02:50
education so poverty can ultimately be
02:53
reduced in societies so education
02:57
nutrition health opportu creating
03:01
opportunities by training people in
03:04
various kinds of skills so these are
03:07
important issues and we are concerned
03:10
with that
03:16
ten years ago we were looking at what do
03:19
the poor people want from us to the need
03:22
better seeds to grow a better food or
03:27
hope or how could they could we improve
03:31
their productivity and we found that
03:34
many women who produce vegetables didn't
03:38
have an access to a good seed pocket
03:41
seed multiplication was not there and
03:43
they couldn't find good seeds in the
03:45
market so we went to the seed production
03:48
first of all vegetable seeds and then
03:50
way we went into hybrid Macy's hydrate
03:54
rice seeds we went to joint venture with
03:56
China with Australia to produce high
03:59
quality seeds upon whether she's poor
04:01
can have access to high-quality seeds
04:03
and that has also had an impact on
04:06
productivity or our agriculture over
04:08
time so these are important .....
04:12
now looking forward from 1999 after 3 decades what next generation of enterprises
100k community health worlers reaching 120 mn people
1.5 bn dollar of loans in 2012 - within microfinance
plus brc bank 2nd biggest bank grounded on smes
bkash
brac university
the housing trust
plus partnerships 11 other country
the ultra poverty partnership - see nobel 2019 economics
the play lab/scoll movement
with china since 1870s crop science and barefoot medic networks
chen family - greg with shameran ebed - lincon in medical
plus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DgZ9HdNBhg
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
sir fazle abed died 20 dec 2019 - so we aim to catalogue cases partners of fazle abed coailitions here
health partners the finance servce then education and other partnere- you will se e that up to 50 ers worls connecting tguhe most digitallhyi divided vilagers to timing when to tgech leapfrog involes a lot of details - if you need ti understahd case in much deeper levels than tehse summarues - we sugget you conatct leadership at brac univrsiti the colalition dur fazle abed set up t be his legacy
oral rehydration coalition -format peer to peer training in villages e pakitan cholera lab , chinese barefoot medics james grant unicef - lives saved since 1970s quarter of all village infants humid asia (eg bangladesh d china)- direct estimate quarter a billion people led directly to half a million village mother jovbs- par health franchise -basic health education and pharmacy- jointly with borlaug village rice businesses led to banking for poor microfinance plus first of 8 components of total value chain of banking for poorest- led indirectly to life expectancy rising 40 to 60s and end if cultural expectation that mothers bred 8+ children so that 2 boys live; led to brac village mothers being the grassroots fieldforce for small pox inoculation- and brac being leader in deepest approached to ending tuberculosis, cholera -one of the big lessons of treating infectious diseases in last mile health systems is maximise inputs of those who survived the disease and have the antibodies to be frontline local servants and virus tracers
ending stunting during first 1000 days - sufficient food security/infant nutrition vital during fort 1000 days otherwise neither body or brain will develop fully- rice became main food security staple to end starvation as well as a sustainable village business mothers could operate- alongside this a veggie like carrots needed since rice alone doesnt have enough vitamins to prevent eg night blindness
asian alumni of the american borlaug saved a billion lives by researching how staple crops could be maximised to small farm production- some crops like rice really dont have much scale advantage- paddy fields do not have an equivalent to huge american plains- locally a farmer can minimise chemical fertiliser if she has a seed optimally adapted to local conditions and closely watch no diseases start- fortunately the food prize presents alumni of borlaug in a good mixture of chronology and most impact- poverty alleviation worlds most valuable school curricula
food and water security, ambassador_kenneth_m_quinn/ former us ambassador to cambodia and 20 year coordinator of world food prize initiated by borlaug the american researcher "Green Revolution" who probably saved a billion asians from starvation or stunting - abed was the 28th? laureate , the first was india's DR Swaminathan , the second was dr chandler who founded the international rice institute (IRRI) in Philippines in 1955 and Taiwan's AVRDC in 1972, the third was india's Dr. Verghese Kurien a mechanical engineer who developed diary cooperative network for indi's small farmers "operation flood" 1965, the fourth dr niederhauser who helped make the ;potato the number 4 staple crop in the world by developing disease resistant potatoes - working out of mexico his knowledge made mexico self-sufficient in ;potato production by 1962 and he established the Inter-American Potato Program in 1961 and the International Potato Program in 1966 to allow scientists from many countries, to collaborate in solving food production problems. Such strategies became the keystone for the newly created international agricultural research centers. the fifth were americans Edward F. Knipling & Dr. Raymond C. Bushland whose work from the 1960s successfully combated particular insects ruining crops , the sixth was China's | He Kang former Minister of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China, for implementing the reform policies that enabled China to become self-sufficient in basic food during the 1980s when his work helped the chinese compound food production by 8% each year in the 1980s
remembering the colonial age left half of the world mainly on the asian continent subsisting from day to day every advance in small enterprise crop science mattered more in the 1950s than all the nuclear scientists - more precisely read our biography on how von neumann was desperate to have a few years on the planet innovating programable computers having given his life to us race to nuclear
maternal care and wellbeing going hand in hand with infant village case - in countries like bangladesh with not enough trained nurses even for the cities - designing the basic health services raising life expectancy to 60s required innovation of para-health networking as well as maximising relevant teaching in schools-
QUALITY OF FOUNDATION MATTER TO ENGINEERS & TRUSTED ECONOMISTS
in transferring brac lessons to africa, forme world bank leader jim kim has said 2015 something along the lines- i now realise its not exponentially economic to design a nation "economic assistance" until is hs a basic health system which brac provides the best value example- of course there diseases that bangladesh doesnt get but with about 80% of world poOrest living between latitude 30 and minus 30 bangladesh is a lab for vast majority of goal 3 solutions
ending tuberculosis - brac solutions attracted partnerships with jim kim george soros paul farmer and bill gates - all during the period 1995-2005- this also ed to james grant school being the founding college of brac university and swarthmore's epidemiologist vice chancellor being a leading member of the original governing board of brac university- swarthmore college was also the inspiration of other only other wise education laureate to include new universities in his alumnis's toolkit for education revolution - see patt
finance partners by being the worlds first bottom up relief agency founded by a former regional ceo of an oil company multinational sir fazle had the ability to change both model of disaster relief and of development in fact fazle dared integrate 4 economic levels at same time - 1 village, 100000 village positive cashflow replication, national leaders , global market leadership PGP goal 17 correction - he never left girls out of public private partnerships- it takes 3 value multipliers to triangularise a any system mapmaker will confirm
-in bangladesh the total value chain of finance is linked by brac models -as is international finance as far as remittances (into bangladesh these represent about a third of foreign currency earnings) or poverty relevant digital fintech is concerned- we will revert with a fuller list of partners - but brac's overall fintech solution is called bkash.com and its main partners today are quadir tech wizard family with mit-=dubai legatum support with bill gates and jack ma- the grant manual program is called ultra graduation - its research verification won the abdul latif/toyota middle east mit poverty lab nobel economic prize; microfinance plus (this model was never turned into a curriculum by 20 years of the american microcreditsummit whose elad storyteller was muhammad yunus), brac city bank with a focus onr 2nd generation of village mothers who now work in the city - this bank also connects with brac international interface for remittances- there is also a merchant banking coalition for the poorest led by brac)- the international operations of brac are handled out of the netherlands- brac was also a founder member of the trade association www.gabv.org global association of banks with values- this was co-founded by shorebank which for nearly 30 years was the benchmark financial service network for regenerating south chicago community- just as one of fazle's abed's core immunology knowhow partners was swarthmore's vice chancellor, shorebanks founders exchanged knowhow on banking
disaster relief agencies often collect funds only for relief- ie they fly in serve the immediate disaster relief needs and fly out with there being a bridge ti development- also tgheir process of tyelief does not maximise local training and it loses the relationshipos of trust which conversely sir fazle could build by living in a region to serve both relief and edeveklopmentg needs- although development economics gives fancy names - effectively sr fazle innovated direct cash gtrasfer - give this money and you will get this skilos capacity as well as reslient commuty aset (eg cyclone proof hut with pit latrine attached) scaling among these specified people- lend m oney and you will sgtart sustainable business in vilage which are designed as microfranchises : 1 so that if vilage mother worlks har she gets a ;positive cash flow - 2 so thye whole value china across the natuon included productivities and demnds of the pooerst
as well as microfinance plus which trains village women in a microfranchise and provides their saving and loan needs
ultra graduation gives the very poorest a grant and training so that over a 2 year period they can develop to stage that they can become a microfranchise owner
brac bank in the cities aimed to serve daughters and sons of villagers who had moved to the city, as well as local smes and put brac operationally in the middle of all emerging technologies starting with those needed to serve international remittances- about a third of all trading income into bangladesh comes from remittances
brac city financiers also have a consortium which can be described as merchant banking for the poor eg looking after currency and other issues that give the poor a seat in national decision making should a disaster hit
brac has an international office ipn the netherlands- it serves remittance; connects international fundraising for bangladesh as well as seeking partners who wish to transfer a brac solution to another country- brac cannot use any money earned in bangladesh so partners need to want to gtale long=ter responsibility for transfering a brac solution
brac also operates the world leading fin tech coalition for the billion unbanked- this uses text mobile - though the models for this first emerged among blackberry users in kenya, by around 2010 bangladeshi americans at mit had hired kenya's original system designer of mpesa and put together tech partners to match brac's deepest trust in the community- many of the partners in the coalition had first been brought to dhaka by this team with their for village phones- however after years of trying to implement this with muhammad yunus the etch experts moved on since a fintech model cannot be financed by an organisation with no savings- tech leaps forward require the ability to invest in leapfroging - the brac bank a billion coalition now includes jack ma and bill gates
brac is also a founding partner of gabv.org the global association of banks with values- this was set up with alumni of south side chcnago's shorebank; brac and shorebank shared a lot of ideas and new stages of development - unfortunately during the subprime crisis- the us bank that had built communities whchc obama emerged form went under;
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020
i am not sure the world ever needs another olympics - anyhow not until we have ended all pandemics- if all the tech in the world cannot be humanly applied to that goal what is te pont of celebrating anything else
however I know fazle abed (and so the world's largest ngo coalition) not only wanted to end poverty but like adam smith before him - he dreamed of a world that gave every person time to enjoy arts or sports as well as work and family/community -the experiential learning needed to entertain others builds the kind of self=confidence/respect every child most needs to know they can contribute
I would ask americans to consider www.kobe.mba and www.fazleabed.com as linking in the same future pathways for millennials to end plagues as well as not only legislating and valuing all lives matter but enjoying all lives matter
Sunday, July 5, 2020
WORLDRECORDJOBS.COM & entrepreneurialrevolution.city INVITE YOU TO JOIN the games - how would edit a card on sir fazle abed and others helping youth in sdgs races - compare with cards used by alumni od the world's richest such as bezos and ma -rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Humanising AI can make 2020s most exciting decade for jobs creators and youth as the sustainability generation- i have participated in at leat 100 debates on what humans and machines can do since my fathers first 3 debated in The Economist from 1962
what if every child/teacher had a japanese pocket calculator (dad brought one back in 1962 from his Japan trip -the first of 30 annul surveys he wrote in the economist- at the time engineers and students opitimum tool was thye slide ruler- one lead dimesnsion of ai remains can computers be billion times more detailed stasti9cians than humsns alone cpould be if we give them real big data and demand analysis at smallest level of dynamics
will the moon race inspire optimism around teh world that no mission is now impossible- what are the greatest humans dreams on earth to aim fir
where will people become alumni of gordin moore's promiose that electronic engioneers will increats chip capacity 100 fold every decadee - that's a truillion times more macine intel than man raced to the moon with
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The Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), an autonomous research body at the National University of Singapore, presented Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG, founder and chair emeritus of BRAC, with the Outstanding Member of the South Asian Diaspora Award (OMSAD). The honour was given at a gala dinner organised at the Shangri-La Hotel on Friday, November 15, in Singapore.
Manzoor Hasan OBE, executive director, Centre for Peace and Justice at BRAC University, accepted the award on behalf of Sir Fazle. Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, former foreign adviser to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh and currently a principal research fellow at ISAS, read the citation of the award.
ISAS organised the event as part of its two-day South Asian Diaspora Convention 2019, concluding today. The theme of the convention is “Vibrant South Asia – Innovative Diaspora”. The Bangladesh High Commission in Singapore is one of the organisations supporting the convention.
Dignitaries from the governments of Singapore and other South Asian nations, academia, researchers and civil society and private sector were present at the gala dinner.
Gopinath Pillai, ambassador-at-large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, and chairman of ISAS, said, “Sir Fazle’s efforts in leading BRAC helped change the lives of many across the world. His contributions to social development and his life’s mission to help the poor serve as an inspiration to the South Asian diaspora and the society at large,” he added.
Past recipients of this award include former Singapore president late SR Nathan.
According to its website, the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) was established in 2004, as an autonomous research institute at the National University of Singapore. ISAS is dedicated to research on contemporary South Asia. It seeks to promote understanding of this vital region of the world and to communicate knowledge and insights about it to policymakers, the business community, academia and civil society, in Singapore and beyond
Village- Engineering smarter Satellites & space communications - Tech offering 100 times more analytic power every decade from late 1960s Youth can achieve mission impossible goals eg moon race if humanity cheers them on - imagine world series of earth races as exciting as moon landing
Safety.
a million people were killed 3 times in first 4 years of fazle abed's 50 years serving poverty alleviation-
million people killed in 48 hour cyclone 1970
million people killed in war of independence 1971
million people die of famine 1974
hence safety is the key value chain of brac - dimensions included resilient communities, local food security, personal safety as integral to empowering mothers and children-
basic to brac's bottom-up approach- maximising community skill building in every intervention- for example when sir fazle moved back to bangladesh 1972 with 16000 pounds from selling his london flat, the first project involved bottom up disaster relief- building tens of thousands of monsoon proof one room dwellings with pit latrines attached- in doing so unlike traditional relief agencies that come in fix a disaster and then fly out, brac saw hut building as organic opportunity to train villagers-from that day on look at every innovation in the community that brac evolves in terms of livelihood education of villagers as well as progressing family and community sustainability
.Health- between 1970 and 1973 sir fazle transitioned his life's purpose from shell oil regional ceo to bottom up disaster relief to serving in-community human development- from the moment brac -bangladesh rural advancement committee - turned to human development, fazle focused on village mothers and children because it was women who spent all their time in the village while young men were often sent to city or abroad to remit funds back to the village- what affordable health solutions in villages with no electricity could women living in the village operate to raise life expectancy from 40 to 60- fortunately this life expectancy question had 2 immediate types of answers - borlaug alumni had advanced local village crop science solution so that there need be no more famine nor malnutrition of infants during the first 1000 days- stunting stops not just an infant's bodily growth but causes her brain to underdevelop- thats why brac needed to design agricultural microfranchises that village mothers could operate; health solutions turned out to begin with oral rehydration - up to a quarter of under 5s died of diarrhea ; abed identified ten most basic village diseases that para-health workers could microfranchise then came nartion-wide immunisation ...in all of these village needs, women villagers in south china nreded similar solutions- the miracle of a billion women villagers building a rural nation became a sino-bangladeshi pursuit through friendships sir fazle formed- basically this open source peer to peer networking of life critical knowhow
.Education - every stall member of brac i have met is an educator forst as well as often bring another deep functional expertise- oral rehydration became an education program that reached out to hundreds of thousands of villages all taught peer to peer; microfranchise solutions involved training to operate the franchise as a positive cash flow business- once mothers had started to thrive they united to demand brac build village primary schools for their kids- sit fazle's passion as a livelihood educator - brac's dna which he built around brazilian paulo freiere's pedagogy of the oppressed- led through all 50 years of abed's service to constant questioning of whee in the ducationage chain could brac partner next from pre-childhood to university; regarding primary and pre-primary schools brac became the largest non government supplier
LoveqLeadership -exercise search for the quote in shakespeare that has the most meaning to you in the age of covid and livesmatter- free yourself to change one word if necessary
-related reference comparison of abed, mandela, gandhi
- eg the quality of LEADERSHIP is not strained (note pope francis is on the money when he asks the eu parliament what is the intergenerational value of mercy but for many westerners leadership is a more common term that needs transformational re-examination wherever 21st c teachers study and curious students teach ).
Its sad but not a shock that the continent of americas and indeed any place dependent on it relationship with washington has become a highly risky lab for resolving corona and livesmatter) , i spent my 1980s helping mit collect a database with thousands of cases on what did societies around the world want from the biggest branded corporations. when a bad leader name of robert maxwell bought out our market modeling analysis, i turned to exponentially the biggest maths problem of local to global sustainability- what happens when analytic professions - eg accounting, insurance, lawyering, valuation, tax , business process engineering, intangibles) lose their hippocratic oath by making the biggest or most powerful their core clients instead of the publics whose trust gave them the monopoly to rule. since 1990 i have worked in world's largest ad agencies, accountants social media searching for the most purposeful collaborative and empowering systems and leaders- the sort needed to value frontline service workers, or resolve locally lives matter conflicts) instead of trying to convince you that fazle abed is the benchmark for valuing the fifth capital love as integral to the other 4 intellectual, social, human and monetary. we offer a handful of life in one-hour transcripts in his own words or those who linked in most deeply with women lifting up half the sky to innovated huge leaps with technology empowering the poorest or most abused which historically hum,d and continental asia became the lab for valuing/freeing poorest women rising partly because of how the top-down british empire ruled and naturally because without access to electricity brute force is key to survival of landlocked peoples, which through millennium 2 had also spun a collision of different faiths where quite frankly those at the west end of eurasia designed round a golden rule cause more short-term aggression and misjudgement than those osmosing natural consciousness and familial love
.Finance -if we dehine the deepest goal of the human race as - desiging a world in which every next baby born has a great chance in life then we need very community to be a thriving place to be born into- the simplest logic then suggests we need finance where most or all of the productivity of workers in the community stays in that community- we can see that is the core way in which a microfranchise service model differs from a macrofranchise one - more at the 5e's and the 5 depths of a local to worldwide economy
please note:
there is nothing more worthy of transparent research/understaning than a positive income business model provided 1 it is a multi-win model not one where one side is extracting from all the others evey quarter; also to be sustainable the model should be compounding no harm on anyone be that your places future generation (eg failure to address green issues just ahead of time) or peoples in other places
in the sense we have definded the human race's goal 1, please note all lives matter; in 2020 americans need to recognise the triple failure of their public servants and busines is constiution which 1 spun underclasses including black , latin and female ; 2 in which about 12 different components of health services were maximising profits not building last mile health services of all - with the absurd result of spending over twice other developed nations on health but with a system that wasnt gettin better or safer for more and more people; look too at americans biggest pharmas profits of 2010s these were coming from focusing on causing opiod addiction not preventing epidemics; there remains very little the younger half of the world can learn from americans on climate innovations because in spite of claiming to be the world's financial superpower this area has not been valued by politicians nor ameriuca's biggest energy companies; and as always when a nation spins non-sustinable big businesses the warning signs come in local communities typically those least connected with the harm some wealthy community was spinning
a deep problem with all of the shelf "markets" as services is that customers who are not the poorest, not with least access to health or educaqtion, demand separation from those who face the most extreme sustainability challenges. for example in bangladesh one of the biggest challenges was how the less poor villagers had become the loan sharks or effectively slave owners of the poorest girls). for this reason brac had to create barefoot lawyers as well as barefoot bankers as wel as barefoot medics and barefoof teachers.
the more fazle abed's life work is studied- the more his observation- at a basic level the poorest in humid villages across asia need similar solutions is evident - whether you try extending the microfranchise asw normal marketrs do, or you insist on random trial proof as fazle abed's work on ultra poverty has been acadically reseached- even getting acadeimncs a nobel economis prize
the obvious question is why didnt india adopt brac solutions especially those ones in village schooling that were based a lot on gandhi- montessor work of the 1930s; the answer is not realy about different faith cultures; it goes bac to the fact that when bangladesh started as a new nation in 191 it was so poor the government barely had enough revenues to serve the cities; if brac hadnt been their to support vilage networks from 1972 there would have been no vilager development at the same time that eg the chinese were applying the same american knowledge sources such as borlaug to end famine
over in idia by this time there was a quater of a century of inheriting the top down democracy structure that had been passed on by the british- in other words the fact thaty the indian government started with a budget for the whole country never gave bottom up india a chance to blossom in spite of this being the legacy gandhi had hoped his succession would value
as you can see if you cross-examine all 7 frameworks, the likelihood that any peoples faced by a deep sdg challenge could gain by saeing what benchmark abeed offers does not in iself resolve problems caused by a national constitution not being founded around all lives matter- rather than use some of fazle abed's most exciting innovations to keep making this point, this books appendix offers transripts - one hours in the life of fazle abed where you can see how he sequenced a next innovation and make you own assessment whtrher your nations legislature would have been legally supportive of such an entrepreneurial intervention
after ten yoera of interviewing fazle abed and 45 years of market research for the biggest corporates in the world, i recommend two frameworks for valuibg how revolutionary and entrepreneurail fazle abed's approach was to human development economics and the business politics of multilareal aid and trade
the 5e's of microfrahising- if you live in the developed world you have probably heard of mcdonalds- it began when the mcdonalds family worked out in one location how parallel teams (5-8 people at busy times of say) could serve food fast, consistently 24/7, matching family's taste buds, affordably; they also worked out how to do it in 2 locations; but what made this a global business was replication to hundreds, thousands, hundred thousands. if you look at any service business team replication as well as property and supply chain is integral to market leadership potential as ensuring a positive cash flow model 365/24/7. however the reason a western corporation does this is not about sustainable community building. most if not all of the value the team serves does not stay with them or in the community but is extracted for the global owners. what makes abed's approach extraordinary- what if human development neds franchising solutions as focused as a global franchiser but where most or all of the vale produced stays the the front line servers and community building
this is where the 5 e's come in- actually for the first 30 years of village development the first 3e's
effective does/solves what is needed
efficient- can never be bettered on cost and quality- relentless double checking that the solution is staying ahead of any relevant change
expandable- as we have noted a franchise is just about one or two locations- nor can impatful poverty alleviation be- the first principle of fazle abed that i saw on 4 one hour videos of his lifework up to 2000 was - small may be beautiful but in bangladesh large scale is essential
the 4th and 5th e's only become relevant when you are helping people develop who for the first time can access electricity and can mobilise e- (digital)
-to understand why fazle abed always needed to explore the double loop of deeply local to humanly global we need to understand th5 market levels - on village, 200k vilages, national leadership, impacting the global market of aid and trade, playing in the worldwide or digital/virtual not just real world of compound goodwill
in more detail- consider the first 3e's
in asia the term villager means peoples without access to electricity grids or other commons utilities eg running water
two thirds of humans are asians and shocking even when western man raced to the moon in 1960s most of world's people still had no access to electricity -exact figures dont matter to appreciate the tranformational challenge the era of mainly 8 empires had trapped humanity in with 2 worldwars by 1945
half of people without electricuity were on asian continent
just over 10% of people - in africa
up to 5% in latin and central america
-add in some rest of world others and two thirds of human race hadn't yet access to what peoples in deveoped countries took for granted from the first 18 decades od nachines and humans-
from 1970 to 1990s networks of fazle abed empowering girl villagers only had the first 3 e's to build with- how fazle abed selected hi-trust partners to apply the coming of electricity by solar and e- by mobilephones requires detailed studies - eg what came first second third- why did each new partner see a win-win-win; how did poorest village girls networks ensure their sdg purposes never got lost in brac's brand architecture - more coming soon
in population terms bangladesh started as a top 10 country and the very poorest
miraculously for human development - continental south china )the nation with one fifth of human beings) had the same urgent village problems- over and over bangladesh and chinese village girls shared live saving microfranchises - they explored the 5 e's like no other network- bottom up empowerment coalitions are not political in the way western empires frame media and legislatures - it would be a pity not to learn from the gretest everr human development miracle just because no politcal party in your place has people who started with as little in life as the asian village girl of 1970- you cant really be authentic to metoo or lives matter advances of the human lot unless you are prepared to accompany a baby asian gir's introduction to mother earth
Village- eg alumni of american borlaug changed local crop science so billins no longer died of famine Engineering smarter Satellites & space communications -telecommute, telehealth, tel-educate, tele-finance, ... prioritise tech innovations for those previously left out of livesmatter in age of machine & human Tech offering 100 times more analytic power every decade from late 1960s -moores law around which silicon valley born to free in 1972 Youth and real heroines can achieve mission impossible goals eg moon race if humanity cheers them on - imagine world series of earth races as exciting as moon landing -economist entreprenur-futures surveys 1972-1982 call forchande in legislation to value startup networking out of every place with a future
what happened to humans in the last 75 years -2020 versus 1945
for alumni of fazle abed as poverty alleviator connector the crucial innovation times 1970-2020 which correspond to moore's 5g to 0g decades discussed below
for a lens that goes back to 1945: can we the peoples design a world in which each next child born has a great chance at life and livelihood. this is why nations met to unite at san francisco opera house 1945.Its a question that involves the design purpose of every market activity from health to education but seemed then and now to require tramsnational priority clarification on investment and on peace building. with extra 2020 twists on climate and viruses as potentially even more extinction-prone battle grounds as man made border disputes and the global threat of nuclear scientists and chemical weapons because americans had kindly intervened twice to stop the old world from collapsing into wars, at san fran 1945 there seemed to be at least an english speaking understanding an understanding that the old world's empires .needed transforming- none more than britain and japan the two islands which had taken over how most lives were organised in asia and africa.over the first 18 decades since machines and humans had evolved out of 1760s glasgow university - first engineer watt, first new market imagineer smith - the majority of the world's people still had no access to electricity grids, therefore little chance to communicate in education ways, risks of poor health, urgent subsistence challenges. although the 1960s did not transform continentally poor asian-african-latin-an peoples lives much at village levels, .it is reported that the moon race decade waved optimism all over the world- maybe so no human mission will be impossible. what happened next - was there an entrepreneurial way rusing? the majority of asians who were still stuck in one of 3 broken financial systems - either no banking for their needs, loan sharks or communism. the great news is during the 1970s hundreds of millions of asia girl empowerment possibilities began to be recognised - see the economist regional series on asia 1975-1977 with its summary one pager on rural keynsianism
if we flip back to the 1950s 4 or 5 huge american inventions started to free the world- two were essential to asia and first tested out by japan ie village system solutions such as borlaugs green revolution crop sciences which improved a billion local peoples food security so that the 100 million asinsa who died of starvation up to 1974 turned that corner
demings esolutions for smarter ways to be enginners -in other words how engineers could be at the nexus of 1 humanising machine intelligence, 2 splitting up an industry whete a big organisation ruled over 2000 different psrts markets to sme supply chains just-intime coordinated by keiretsu or chaebol- the way that both japan and korea leapt into developed nations and capable of gselective global market leadership
the other 3 american cheerled innovations of 1950s
satellites and space ie revolutions in borderless communications which tv first took advantage of but which digital media would soon eclipse
100 times moore computational technology invented by von neumann but after whose deat was soon linked in around alumni of gordon moore and the branding of silico vally as the place that thought or invested ahead of 100 times moore
trusting youth netwrks to the grreatest goals ever set - after the moon race whAT NEXT
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following moores law alumni lets call the decades of 100 times more computer analytica power
5g 2020s 2g 1990s 1g 1980s 0g 1970s
for those who started with the least in the1970s , as already noted, even first access to electricity grids was a while off but this means relentless question of timing matters-
eg suddenly around 1995 tech partners were bringing mobile phones and solar to test in a few villages -almost at the same time that rich people had access to these wherever they chose
the first use bangladesh and south china and african villagers made of text phone and solar offered many orders of magnitude catch up opportunities the richest could imagine - ie cashless banking and solar charged hotspots
at the same time by accident china's number 1 youth english languagre teacher jack ma was visiting usa for foirst time- by serendipity he had been asked to do translator work in seatlle- for the forst time an asian saw an american hi-tech experiment rollout from birth -ecoomerce amazon- unlike bezos who had fierce battles for funds with wall strret and hundreds of dotcoms, jack had about 10 years to search for partners in investing in his question - when ecoomerce and worldwide web and supertrains all conveger on china in 2005 - how can we maximise youth lives matter and livelihoods- so it was trhat the whole of the commercial worlds of e evolved totally differently out of usa and out of asia- fazle abed had retained 25 years of goodwill with chija's deepest end poverty workers- they made sure jack ma's teams monitored what yunus and abed parnerships did as the 5g to 0g decades crashed into the 4th and 5th e of microfranchising as well as the 5 most fundamental market sectirs of end poverty ie shelf
some learning curves to understand
quadirs in bangladesh from 1995
cellnet then mpesa use of blackberry in africa later united in bangladesh with abed pasrtners
neville willaims netwrks introduction of slar to bangladesh and rural china
partners of jack ma
how soros and jim kim found abed health solution circa 2000 and linked in gates by 2005
in 2008 when western fintech use colapsed in supbprime and credit card debt, jacks models were ready to help the start of the 2010s be the startup decade for chinese youth that american youth had dreamed the dotcoms could be back in 1998 - see eg cluetrain.com
more broadly the whoe of asia started to have a choice of how ecoomerce , cashlees finance village lives matter wherever utility leapfroging can be intgrated at cintiental scale
what data is social, privatised, and private- this question started ton playout with blockchain- its still not been resolved because its deepest answer requires different consitutionns than big gov and big corporate spin - much od asia has the advantage of engineering blends of state capital- unlike the pathetiuc wining of those who lobby in brussels and washinbgton dcthis is how nations have always leaped forward in development- this economists and other professionals hire by buig interests to value opposite scenarios are not participating in sdg truth - see eg the 300 trillion dollars of westernnpenion money that doest yet see any sdg investment as asset grade
when competing or collaborating fazle abed was always enginneering 5 different levels of markets - nb what might look good short-term in one might be a cancer in the other- markets as systems are holnic
perfect franchise one village; adaptaion to leading solution across 200k villages; leading national value chain; leading a global market; leading a worlwide virtual market
adaptation to leading a national market and connection with all end-poverty solutions in this market
example over time brac has needed to design finacial service solutions at all these leves
ulta poor - grant and training prior to being able to entreprenurialy apply microfimance
microfinance village community gtoups
city banking for vilage youth immigrants to city-eg daughter os the firstv generation village mothers
mercant banking needs for the poor - eg curency insurances
international network first to make remittances lowest cost - one third of bangladesh foreign currency cone from remittances- throiugh which diaspoora sends mone offten to the poorest village family member acrss family trees whic have hundreds of living members- bracs international hq in netg=herlands is aklso needed 1 to fundriase globally for brac in bangladesh , 2 a bangladesh ngo cant work on ending poverty abroad- in other words to replicare brac learning abroad international funbd raising muyst be a fifferent audited system than brac's oridins servinbg bangladesh
virtual finance partnerships such as www.bksash.com
professiomal assocition www.gaby.org of most trusted purposel communty- centred banking models
