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Queen Rania, the wife of Jordan's King Abdullah, has described the challenge to her country as trying to reconcile tradition with modernity. In Jordan, the issues she champions to bridge this gap include computer skills for schoolchildren, micro loans for women to start their own businesses, ending child abuse and trafficking and pushing for harsher penalties for honor killings. But I know her through her efforts on a larger world stage. Along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Rania is working to spread the modern gospel of childhood vaccination. As she noted that evening...
Nonetheless, is it wise to impose modernization from outside? Surely not, but the plan can hardly be accused of imposing anything. Rather, the G8 programs would provide funds and technical assistance to Arab men and women working to create change internally: everything from journalism scholarships to micro-enterprise loans; from election monitors, to grants to pro-democracy NGOs and academic centers for women...
...advocated the implementation of micro-loans—programs that extend credit to the poor who are unable to provide banks the collateral they demand...
Panel discussions often spilled over into the halls and ranged from more traditional sessions on topics like micro-finance to newer issues such as social marketing—in both non-profit and for-profit sectors...
Barry, whose micro-credit programs empower women through entrepreneurial opportunities, noted how the traditional standards of banking cannot simply by reapplied on a “micro” scale to create an effective micro-finance industry...