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...billionaire Ziff brothers, whose fortune came largely from the 1994 sale of the family publishing business built by their father. Since 1996, Ziff Bros. Investments has overseen a $150 million OPIC-guaranteed fund, the South Asia Capital Fund, whose purpose is to make equity investments in India, Indonesia, Laos, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Philippines...
...youths who feel their nation or religion is being unjustly targeted by outside forces, particularly American. What better way to enlarge this human resource pool than an apparently (to populations of such countries) unprovoked attack by the United States? The anti-American demonstrations that rocked the Islamic world from Bangladesh to Egypt following the air strikes serve as only the most harmless manifestation of the emotions that may lead droves of young people to join terrorist organizations...
...microbanks around the world. More than 7,000 microcredit institutions offer tiny loans (averaging about $100) to destitute people to generate income through self-employment. The results are higher incomes, better health and better school attendance. Microbanking now functions on a large scale. For example, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has more than 2 million borrowers, most of them village women, in one of the world's poorest countries. Yet the on-time repayment rate is 98%. In the microbanks, the interests of the customers, not global strategy, come first. BLAISE SALMON Victoria...
This summer, 10 students are scheduled to work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Peru, and organizers hope that the program will expand in future years...
Alina Das '01 will be working with Phulki, an NGO in Dhaka, Bangladesh through which Bhumi ran a child sponsorship program last year...