Lewis Library
Articles & Speeches about Microfinance
Microfinance in the Balance (video): Microfinance Panel with Alvaro Rodriguez, Chair, Compartamos Banco (Mexico), and Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation (Pakistan), moderated by Jonathan Lewis. Skoll World Forum, 2011.
Storm Warnings from International Microfinance: Lessons and cautions from the recent controversies in the international microfinance arena. Microfinance USA, 2011.
Microfinance USA Panel (video) - The most definitive, dynamic, clear-headed (and hard-headed), respectful discussion about the trends and tensions in today’s microfinance field in recent memory.
Microfinance: Markets, Missions & Mendacity: Misunderstandings about microfinance in the context of social investing. Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley, 2010.
Microloan Sharking: Article about predatory microfinance interest rates charged the poor. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2008.
Obama Calls Out Microfinance: Taking the measure of microfinance.
Millions for Millions: Seminal article about the schism between advocates of commericial microfinance and proponents of tradional microcredit.
Human Faces of Microfinance Impact: Balanced, common sense review and discussion about the true impact of microfinance, from Freedom from Hunger.
Articles & Speeches about Social Investing
Beyond the Magic Bullet: Keynote Address, Beyond the Magic Bullet Conference, Stanford Association for International Development.
Social Entrepreneurship Unwrapped: Speech to New England International Donors & MIT Sloan Net Impact.
Markets & Missions: Keynote speech about social investing.
Unitus, We Stand; Divide Us, We Fall: Nonprofit leadership is foremost about trusteeship.
Articles & Speeches about the Opportunity Collaboration
New Kind of Business Retreat to Tackle Global Poverty, Forbes.com, August, 2011.
Opportunity Collaboration Welcome Address, Ixtapa, Mexico, October, 2011.
Opportunity Collaboration Discussed: Interview about the genesis of the Opportunity Collarboration and its purpose.
High-Flying Philanthropist: "...when it comes to poverty, there are no competitors; we are all colleagues."
Articles & Speeches about MicroCredit Enterprises
Some Say Nothing Can Be Done About Global Poverty: Summary overview of the MicroCredit Enterprises social finance model.
As Microfinance Struggles, Simple "Guarantees" Bring Hope: Good magazine article explains how MicroCredit Enterprises works.
Leveraging Passive Capital for the Benefit of the Poorest: Alliance magazine explains MicroCredit Enterprises to philanthropists.
Markets & Missions, Blum Center on Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley
Markets & Missions Syllabus (IAS 140): Class curriculum for Markets and Missions: A Practicum on Social Enterprise.
Recommended Books for Combating Poverty: Ten book recommendations about poverty, power and prosperity.
Resources for Global Poverty Alleviation & Social Entrepreneurship: Useful Internet portals, academic centers and information clearinghouses.
Other Recommended Articles and Websites
Social Impact Evaluation - Useful? Utopian?: Four-part Huffington Post blog series.
Poverty Provocations: Favorite quotes, proverbs, provocations and punditry, many of which are in my speeches and writings.
World Clock: Fascinating, mesmerizing and constantly updated statistics about the global condition.
The Girl Effect: The most potent (and fastest!) economic development lesson on the Internet.
July Fourth and the New Hot Dog Party: A democracy of devouring hot doggery.
