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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Spanning halfway round the globe – from Turkey to the United Arab Emirates to India, South East Asia and China – the book brings one on a fascinating tour of the complex business characteristics governing our neck of the woods. Let me highlight some of the book’s fascinating themes: Growth of Middle-Class Consumers.

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A Newbie’s Guide To Microfinancing

YoungUpstarts

Grameen Bank , the first large microfinance bank, was founded and continues to operate as a global nonprofit. Mohammad Yunus who, back in the 1970s, began lending to impoverished women in Jobra, Bangladesh, while teaching economics at Chittagong University. Who invented microfinancing? Why is credit so important?

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And Then They Came for Me …

Both Sides of the Table

You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. We are the global cabal who control finance, media and governments in the eyes of the conspiracy theorists.