Reading-debate

Event

Title:

Vers un nouveau capitalisme

Date:

03 November 2009 18:30 h - 20:30 h

Venue:

CIBC Wood Gundy - Montréal

Author:

Muhammad Yunus

Summary:

Un an après avoir reçu le prix Nobel de la paix, Muhammad Yunus présente sa vision d’un nouveau modèle économique associant le libre fonctionnement du marché à la recherche d’un monde plus humain. La domination sans partage exercée par le libéralisme économique depuis deux décennies a certes autorisé un accroissement significatif du bien-être d’une large partie de la population mondiale. Mais la recherche exclusive du profit placée à sa racine ne lui permet pas d’apporter de solution au creusement des inégalités et à la persistance de la pauvreté. S’appuyant sur le succès de la « révolution du microcrédit » qu’il initia au Bangladesh voilà trente ans en créant la Grameen Bank, le « banquier des pauvres » propose [ lire la suite ]

Guest:

Farès Khoury, Sandra D. Péloquin, Anne Roudaut

Details:

Commandité par

Élaine Bissonnette, Conseillère en placements

Biographie:

Farès Khoury is an economist. Since 1981, he has been the president of Étude Économique Conseil (EEC Canada, www.eecgroup.com). From the begining of his carreer as a development economist in the late 70s, microcredit issues have captured his interest. Between 1979 and 1986, Mr. Khoury was mandated by several IFIs to assess the Grameen Bank which at the time was only a project and was just barely emerging as a very unique type of commercial and investment banking institution. Since then, he has evaluated over 100 microcredit projects all around the world. Furthermore, between 2005 and 2008, he acted as moderator for the Cercles d'emprunt de Montréal's Board of directors (www.cerclesdemprunt.com), which was the first organism to draw its inspiration from the Grameen Bank. Les Cercles d'emprunt de Montréal introduced microcredit to Quebec and today, still remains one of its most active standard bearers.

Sandra D. Péloquin, MBA, Director, Project Financing solutions at the Business Development Bank of Canada. Sandra also supports a different kind of travel experience for everyone. She has recently helped to set up a microcredit program in an impoverished suburb in Peru.

Anne Roudaut is an environmental advisor for several CEGEPs in Montréal. She just came back from Bangladesh where she observed the functioning of the Grameen Bank, founded by the author and founding father of microcredit.

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