Social Impact Investing – Maria Ortero

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Maria Otero is president and CEO of ACCION International, a leading global microfinance institution that seeks to open the financial systems in developing countries to reach the poor. ACCION provides technical assistance, equity investment and financial services to 27 of the most advanced microfinance institutions in the world, which ACCION helped start and/or grow. Most of these microfinance institutions are regulated, are members of the ACCION Network, and together reached 1.9 million borrowers at the end of 2005, with an active loan portfolio that exceeded $1 billion. Ms. Otero first joined ACCION in 1986 as director of its lending program in Honduras, where she lived for three years. She…... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

MIT Clean Tech/GABA Lecture with Dr. Hermann Scheer

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German American Business Association of California, Inc. and the MIT Club of Northern California Clean Technology Program invite you to this joint event. Towards Energy Autonomy New Politics for Renewable Energy.
This is also the topic of Hermann Scheer’s latest book. Hermann Scheer will discuss how policy models fostering renewable energy can pave the way for energy autonomy. He will also discuss the current trends regarding the upcoming review of the German EEG (feed-in-tariff) which is due by the end of 2007 / beginning 2008 and which has created the largest solar energy market in the world.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

“DNA and the Brain” – Dr. James Watson speaks at Google

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James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate and Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, describes the years leading up to his 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize with Drs. Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins (1962). Dr. Watson explains that the key to uncovering the causes of brain disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, fragile X syndrome, Alzheimers, etc. is in our genes. He depicts the strides being made by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research institution in the biological sciences, as they search to find the genetic basis of
neurological disorders. CSHL scientists’ seach to root out disease genes related to mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia…... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

“Investment Opportunities in China” – Dr. Burton G….

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Since the beginning of economic reforms two decades ago, the economy in China has produced real growth rates of between 8 percent and 10 percent per year. It is believed that China will continue to experience exceptional growth for decades to come at rates well above those of any other large country in the world. In this talk Professor Burton Malkiel discusses why China will enjoy growth rates of economic activity well above those in the developed world. But economic growth does not necessarily translate into high-security returns. Indeed, returns from investments in Chinese equities have been unattractive for the past decade, and corruption and corporate governance issues, as well as a variety of…... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!