GPF Plenary 5: Creating an Economic Space

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Partner:: Global Philanthropy Forum
Location:: Global Philanthropy Forum
Redwood City, CA
Event Date:: 04.10.08
Speakers:: Fazle Hasan Abed,; Dr. Larry Brilliant,; Judy Woodruff
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Summary: Larry Brilliant, director of Google.org, and Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, tell of their experiences in microfinancing. They explain why investing in developing economies not only makes sense financially, but plays a key part in improving global health and stability.

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Fazle Hasan Abed

Fazle Hasan Abed is a Bangladeshi social worker, and the founder and chairman of BRAC (formerly, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). For his outstanding contributions to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq Award. Abed is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law.

Dr. Larry Brilliant

Larry is an M.D. and M.P.H. and a former professor of epidemiology. He helped run the WHO smallpox eradication program in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh; was a staff member of the WHO "Global Commission to Certify Smallpox Eradicated" in Burma, India, Nepal, and Iran; and served as the last UN inspector to visit Iran to search for hidden smallpox. The author of two books and dozens of articles on the epidemiology of smallpox, blindness, and environmental diseases, he has worked at city, county, state, federal, and international levels. Larry is also the founder of the Seva Foundation, which has performed 2 million free sight-restoring eye operations in India and Nepal. As a technologist, he was a founder of The WELL, CEO of two public technology corporations (SoftNet Systems Inc. and Network Technologies), and most recently founded the WiFi company, Cometa. Dr. Brilliant is also a recipient of the 2006 TED Prize, which grants him one wish to change the world.

Judy Woodruff

Judy Woodruff is a PBS correspondent for Newshour with Jim Lehrer. She has reported on politics and breaking news for over three decades at three major networks, NBC, PBS and CNN. Woodruff left CNN in June 2005 to pursue longer-form journalism opportunities in addition to teaching, writing and public speaking.

During her 12 years at CNN, Woodruff anchored "Inside Politics," a show for political insiders across the country.

Prior to her joining CNN in 1993, Woodruff was the chief Washington correspondent for NBC's "Today Show," the White House correspondent for NBC News, and the chief Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour.

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01.: Introduction

08 min 17 sec

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02.: The Overarching Importance of Economic Stability

05 min 14 sec

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03.: How to Spur Economic Growth

06 min 05 sec

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04.: Problems with Investing in Developing Economies

04 min 49 sec

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05.: Turning a Microloan into a Business

04 min 19 sec

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06.: Role of Women in Developing Economies

03 min 45 sec

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07.: What Developing Economies Need Besides Money

03 min 54 sec

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08.: The Need to Scale Up Aid Programs

03 min 19 sec

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09.: Effect of Armed Conflict on Economic Growth

02 min 20 sec

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10.: Q & A

00 min 15 sec

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11.: Q1: Helping Women Entrepreneurs

01 min 53 sec

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12.: Q2: Looking at Other Countries' Aid Efforts

02 min 55 sec

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13.: Q3: Working with Women in Afghanistan

01 min 47 sec

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14.: Q4: The Role of Different Sized Loans

03 min 04 sec

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15.: Q5: Efforts to Scale Up Microfinance Projects

03 min 09 sec

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16.: Q6: Organizing Microfinance Efforts

03 min 17 sec

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17.: Q7: Replacing the Drug Trade with Legal Business

03 min 13 sec

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18.: Q8: Effect of Climate Change on Economic Development

07 min 22 sec

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19.: Messages of Hope

02 min 22 sec

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Larry Brilliant: 'Get Off your Assets' & Offer Microloans

06 min 39 sec

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Improving Quality of Life Boosts Economy

04 min 33 sec

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Ending Poverty with a Business Model

03 min 50 sec

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