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A Dollar a Day: The New Silver (Clip)
A Dollar a Day: The New Silver (Clip)
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The New Silver, filmed in Bolivia, illustrates how access to capital can change the lives of poor individuals and nations. Maria Cabana, whose husband is ill from working in the...

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A Dollar a Day: The New Silver
A Dollar a Day: The New Silver
   00:52:30
The New Silver, filmed in Bolivia, illustrates how access to capital can change the lives of poor individuals and nations. Maria Cabana, whose husband is ill from working in the...

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Yunus Says Grameen Bank Remains Robust Despite Crisis
Yunus Says Grameen Bank Remains Robust Despite Crisis
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its microcredit program remain robust despite the gloomy state of the global economy. Yunus credits the bank's one-on-one relationship...

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Pro Mujer
Pro Mujer
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Pro Mujer is an international microfinance and women's development network whose mission is to provide Latin America's poorest women with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and futures for...

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Pro Mujer - Peru
Pro Mujer - Peru
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Pro Mujer in Peru began in 1999 building upon the knowledge and lessons learned in Bolivia and Nicaragua. The institution achieved self-sustainability by the end of 2002. Pro Mujer in...

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Pro Mujer - Argentina
Pro Mujer - Argentina
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Pro Mujer in Argentina began operations in November, 2005 in the city of Salta, a northern province near the Bolivian border. It received technical assistance and support from Pro Mujer...

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Barney Frank - The Third Age of American Finance
Barney Frank - The Third Age of American Finance
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Barney Frank, U.S. Congressman (D-MA) and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, calls securitization the third major period of American economic history, and blames underregulation of securitized lending as...

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Ralph Nader - Bailout and the Economic Crisis
Ralph Nader - Bailout and the Economic Crisis
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Activist, author and 2008 independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader criticizes the federal government's "bailout" of Wall Street, and blames deregulation for the current downturn in the economy.

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Bonus Video: Danny Schechter - The Prescient Pariah
Bonus Video: Danny Schechter - The Prescient Pariah
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Journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter talks with Link TV Vice President Wendy Hanamura about how his warnings about an impending credit and economic crisis were considered alarmist...until now.

Bonus Video: Danny Schechter - The Need for Reforms
Bonus Video: Danny Schechter - The Need for Reforms
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Journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter describes the need for economic, not just political, reform to prevent citizens from predatory credit practices and to hold financial corporations responsible.

Bonus Video: Danny Schechter - Why Big Media Ignores the Big Story
Bonus Video: Danny Schechter - Why Big Media Ignores the Big Story
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Journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter discusses the reasons the mainstream media has glossed over - and even avoided - coverage of the real causes of the morgage and credit crisis...