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The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2006
In 1997, RESULTS Educational Fund, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, organized the Microcredit Summit. The summit focused on catalyzing the international development community to recognize that scaling up microfinance was essential to reaching the Millennium Development Goals and creating a just world.

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The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2006
In 1997, RESULTS Educational Fund, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, organized the Microcredit Summit. The summit focused on catalyzing the international development community to recognize that scaling up microfinance was essential to reaching the Millennium Development Goals and creating a just world.

Microfinance 2015: Panel Focuses on the Future and Outlook of Microfinance
Where will microfinance be in 2015? What is the future and challenges of microfinance? The first discussion held at the launch of the International Year of Microcredit 2005 focused on these key questions.
PAPER WRAP-UP: Beware of Bad Microcredit by Steve Beck and Tim Ogden
In their short article published in the Harvard Business Review, Steve Beck and Tim Ogden warn that, though microcredit programs can be highly effective, companies need to exercise caution before investing in them because of the risk for such investments to backfire, both from a social development and a public relations standpoint.
1.2 From Copenhagen to the Millennium Declaration: Working Out of Poverty
In 1995, the Copenhagen Social Summit put the “people’s agenda” back into the forefront of international policy. By stressing the interlinked challenges of poverty, unemployment and social exclusion as central to a global social justice strategy, the Social Summit marked a turning point for the multilateral system. It reinforced the ILO mandate in the world of work and gave new impetus to the promotion of core labour standards.
From Rhetoric to Action: The African Investment Climate Facility
The Investment Climate Facility (ICF) for Africa, an innovative public private partnership aimed at making Africa a better place in which to do business, was launched. The Commission for Africa, convened by the United Kingdom government, had proposed the initiative, which was endorsed at last year's World Economic Forum Africa Economic Summit and by the leaders of the G 8 industrialized nations at their summit in Scotland. According to ICF Co Chair and session Chair Niall FitzGerald, Chairman, Reuters, United Kingdom; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the facility had already received US$ 90 million in commitments. Additional unspecified pledges made by the European Union and the African Development Bank during the session were likely to push the total above US$ 100 million.
Cultural Differences with Sales Force Evaluation
I was in New Orleans speaking at the Gazelles Coaches Summit, a prelude to the Fortune Magazine Sales Summit. I was asked a question about cultural differences with the Sales Force Evaluation: Is the lack of Money Motivation on an entire sales force in Ireland a cultural difference?
National Publicity Summit – Should You Go?
As a publicist I get asked by clients and authors about going to the National Publicity Summit in New York. I’ve attended almost every Summit since Steve Harrison started it and go once or twice a year to create new media relationships, maintain old ones and of course, to pitch my clients to the media. Here's a run down of the reasons I've decided to go.
Dig It
Through what I refer to as my "leadership moment", I dig as deep as I ever have to uncover a climbing rope on the way to the summit of Mt Everest.
Locations & Beyond Summit 2010
A synopsis of the Locations & Beyond Summit 2010 and how location trends will impact the travel industry.

Optimising Learning Initiatives
Neuroscience can now tell us a lot about optimal learning processes. At the recent NeuroLeadership Summit in Boston, October 2010, Lila Divachi talked about a way to ensure memories stick for AGES. Using the accronym AGES, she talks through the neuroscience of Attention, Generation, Emotion and Spacing as the keys to improving memory rentention from training. As a student of then first Masters in Neuroscience of Leadership, the Summit provided invaluable additional research.
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