Download or read book The Defiant Optimist written by Durreen Shahnaz and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global inequality is growing. Financial markets disenfranchise women, the 99 percent, and the planet itself. But what if we found the source of power and turned it inside out? What if we made the tools of the system available to all? When she launched the world's first stock exchange for social enterprises, Durreen Shahnaz started more than a new financial system; she sparked a movement. Defiant optimism-the stubborn belief that systems that enrich the few can be transformed for the good of the many-requires an indomitable spirit. In these pages, Shahnaz illuminates what investing in those excluded from networks of power and opportunity requires. From growing up with constrained life chances, to working as the first Bangladeshi woman on Wall Street, to becoming a global leader in impact investing, Shahnaz takes us on a mesmerizing trek of innovation, compassion, and enterprise. We accompany her to villages in Bangladesh where she helps women entrepreneurs learn to proudly sign their names, and on visits to venture capitalists who walk past her to shake her male employees' hands. We go to a garment factory where women labour for low wages, and to a town in India where microfinance offers women enough capital to run grocery stores and tailor shops. Along the way, the birth of her two daughters only fuels her relentless pursuit of a world where girls are valued. Finally, armed with financial backers and a plan, Shahnaz successfully launches the Women's Livelihood BondTM Series, the world's first tradable financial product for investing in underserved women's livelihoods. Changing how systems work-and who they work for-isn't for the faint of heart. But The Defiant Optimist offers strategies for placing women, the underserved, and the planet at the heart of systems. Together we can locate the levers of power and pull them defiantly in a new direction.
Download or read book The Optimist written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Optimist s Good Morning written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future We Choose written by Christiana Figueres and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac—who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015. The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.
Download or read book Goethe s Faust written by Denton Jaques Snider and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Western Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bedside Guardian written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Granta written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coroebus Triumphs written by Sport Literature Association. Meeting and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient poets tell us that in the year 776 B.C. a young cook from Elis won a great footrace in a meadow near the river Alpheus at Olympia. The youth, Coroebus, was crowned with a wreath of wild olive twigs and thus became the first recorded victor in the ancient Olympic Games. From this beginning there evolved an alliance of sport and the arts that no culture or civilization since the Greeks has been able to achieve. During the summer of 1984, a collection of scholars, athletes, and artists from various disciplines convened in Coroebus's honor to celebrate the alliance of sport and the arts with the formation of the Sport Literature Association. The papers in this volume, most of which were presented at the Coroebus Conference, are devoted to examining and furthering the understanding of that alliance. The Coroebus Conference, and particularly the resulting writings compiled in this volume, are a long overdue recognition of a neglected relationship. This book could well provide the impetus to recapture the alliance from which both sport and the arts benefitted so well in the past. Originally published in 1989.
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signatures on the Seashore written by Sī Nārāyaṇa Reḍḍī and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Literature written by David Daiches and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Houghton Mifflin Literature Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
