[Mitworld] New: Yunus on Global Poverty, Panel on Forced Labor

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[ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY]

Muhammad Yunus provides an overview of the revolutionary microcredit
system he created, making small loans to the world's poorest people.

[SPEAKERS]

**Speakers:**

**Muhammad Yunus**
Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS



PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/289/>

[QUOTE]
"Poverty is created by institutions we built--banking is one--the
policies we pursue, concepts in classrooms. If you want to get poverty
out of the world, we must redesign concepts, those theoretical
structures. If you fix those things, nobody will be poor."
-- Muhammad Yunus


EVENT HOST: Poverty Action Lab
<http://www.povertyactionlab.com/>

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[FORCED LABOR IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD]

Tom Ashbrook moderates this first of two panels on forced labor that
considers issues of child labor, international law, multinational
corporate governance, activism and competition.

[SPEAKERS]

**Moderator:**
**Tom Ashbrook**
Host, On Point, WBUR-FM, Boston

**PANELISTS:**
**Terry Collingsworth**
Executive Director, International Labor Rights Fund

**Regina Abrami**
Assistant Professor, Business, Government and the International Economy

Harvard Business School

**Roger Plant**
Head of the Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor, International
Labor Organization

**Thomas Kochan**
George M. Bunker Professor of Management
MIT Sloan

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/288/>

[QUOTE]
"I don't think any company does anything unless you make them. Things
that the Gap and Nike are doing are happening because they were hounded
for 15 years by student groups and their brand names started to be
affected by it. Pressure has to remain for companies to take action."
-- Terry Collingsworth

EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies
<http://web.mit.edu/cis/>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

**The Energy Research Council and the
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment present**

**Steve Koonin**
Chief Scientist at BP


[** "ENERGY FOR THE COMING DECADES:
TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES"**]

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