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isPermaLink="false">http://skollworldforum.org/?p=2513</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thoughts After Skoll World Forum – Part IV by Alvaro Rodríguez Compartamos Banco &#160; The microfinance industry in Bangladesh and India are going through the deepest crisis in the history of this sector. These are two very different crises, however ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/lessons-from-bangladesh-and-india/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ethics of price</title><link>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/ethics-of-price/</link> <comments>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/ethics-of-price/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:26:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Skoll World Forum Admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://skollworldforum.org/?p=2511</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thoughts After Skoll World Forum – Part III by Alvaro Rodríguez Compartamos Banco &#160; Some have questioned the ethics of the level of interest rates in microfinance. There is no question that there is an issue on the level of ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/ethics-of-price/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>“We transform lives”</title><link>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/%e2%80%9cwe-transform-lives%e2%80%9d/</link> <comments>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/%e2%80%9cwe-transform-lives%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:25:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Skoll World Forum Admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://skollworldforum.org/?p=2509</guid> <description><![CDATA[We need to careful with how we define our mission. We are all working with the objective to transform lives. However, we first need to be humble and recognize that we do not transform lives; our clients transform their own lives. We may act as facilitators or as catalysts so that our clients are better able to transform their lives, but at any point do we transform their lives. “We transform lives” can be a very populist statement, but we should not get caught with the attractiveness of it because it is not only extremely difficult to implement, but it can also create very negative externalities.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/%e2%80%9cwe-transform-lives%e2%80%9d/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>“You serve two masters”</title><link>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/%e2%80%9cyou-serve-two-masters%e2%80%9d/</link> <comments>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/%e2%80%9cyou-serve-two-masters%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:23:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Skoll World Forum Admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://skollworldforum.org/?p=2507</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thoughts After Skoll World Forum – Part I by Alvaro Rodríguez Compartamos Banco &#160; Some people assume that commercial microfinance needs to respond to two “masters” – the client and the shareholder. This assumption implies that these two masters have ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/28/%e2%80%9cyou-serve-two-masters%e2%80%9d/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Deep Leadership</title><link>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/25/deep-leadership/</link> <comments>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/25/deep-leadership/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:15:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Skoll World Forum Admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://skollworldforum.org/?p=1618</guid> <description><![CDATA[Shaking Archbishop Desmond Tutu&#8217;s hand after this fantastic hour and a half was definitely the most exciting part of today&#8217;s early session. I’m supposed to give a description of the content of the session however, it was extremely hard to ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/25/deep-leadership/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Skoll World Forum begins with Baaba, a bat, and BRAC</title><link>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/18/the-skoll-world-forum-begins-with-baaba-a-bat-and-brac/</link> <comments>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/18/the-skoll-world-forum-begins-with-baaba-a-bat-and-brac/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:20:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Skoll World Forum Admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://skollworldforum.org/?p=1623</guid> <description><![CDATA[Having followed the happenings at the Skoll World Forum for a few years now, it was a privilege to share three days with some incredible possibilitists at this year’s event. Jeff Skoll, the first president of EBay and founder of ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/18/the-skoll-world-forum-begins-with-baaba-a-bat-and-brac/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Corporate Giants: Sustainably profitable and impactful business over mere CSR.</title><link>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/18/the-corporate-giants-sustainably-profitable-and-impactful-business-over-mere-csr/</link> <comments>http://skollworldforum.org/2011/04/18/the-corporate-giants-sustainably-profitable-and-impactful-business-over-mere-csr/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:18:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Skoll World Forum Admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
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