Il guru del microcredito: «Ripensare la finanza dal lato …

«La mia mente non riesce a pensare in un modo complicato». Così ha iniziato la sua conferenza il professor Muhammad Yunus, guru del microcredito, Nobel per la pace nel 2006, al “Social Business Symposium” che si è svolto recentemente a Bangkok. «Ogni problema complicato può essere risolto riducendolo ai minimi termini».

In realtà, il pensiero di Yunus, più che semplice è orientale. Ascoltandolo, oltre il suo indiscutibile fascino, emerge la sua capacità d’affabulatore – «Quando ho imparato come fanno le banche ho fatto l’opposto» è una delle sue battute predilette – e ci si rende conto che Yunus ragiona secondo una logica diversa da quella occidentale, che segue un percorso lineare, di causa ed effetto. Per Yunus, invece, tutto, anche l’economia, è regolato da una logica circolare, basata sulla sintesi degli opposti. «Secondo il modello di business tradizionale, gli uomini perseguono un istinto egoistico. Ma gli uomini sono esseri multidimensionali, con un lato egoistico e uno altruista. Ecco che si può costruire un modello di business basato sull’altruismo, che non produca profitti per la società ma sia rivolto alla soluzione di un problema sociale».

Un modello, secondo Yunus, alternativo a un sistema finanziario che negli ultimi anni ha generato crisi catastrofiche. «Tutte le crisi vengono dalla stessa radice perchè si pensa che fare il denaro è l’unico scopo. Seguendo un modello altruistico le crisi si prevengono. È come investire sulla ricerca medica per prevenire le malattie anziché per curarle».

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È un’analisi, a sua volta, che sembra calibrata soprattutto sulle economie asiatiche in cui il divario tra ricchi e poveri si fa sempre più forte e sta innescando violente crisi politiche. «I poveri sono gente bonsai: non sono piantati in un vero terreno. Ma il seme è lo stesso dell’albero» ha detto, con un paragone che sembra tratto da un’opera di Rabindranath Tagore, lo scrittore bengalese che Yunus, come tutti i Bangladeshi colti, ama molto. Ed è seguendo un modello socio-politico tutto orientale che Yunus non trova contraddizione nelle aziende che, pur utilizzando la manodopera a basso costo di paesi come il Bangla Desh – impegnano fondi e ricerca in attività di “Social business”. Nella sua prospettiva non sono operazioni d’immagine quanto evoluzioni creative: «L’80 per cento del social business è l’idea creativa. I soldi sono solo il 20%».

Oltre l’agiografia del “banchiere dei poveri”, questa è la più profonda lezione di Yunus: «La creatività umana non ha limiti. È solo questione di come l’applichiamo». È così che si possono trovare «soluzioni semplici per un mondo complesso».

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Article source: http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2012-05-19/ripensare-finanza-lato-altruistico-160714.shtml?uuid=AbzNpEfF

Phuket Villas Rise; Bee Gee Dies; Phuket Dolphin in Danger; World …

reuters Nearly 50 US military veterans at an anti-Nato rally in Chicago threw their service medals into the street, an action they said symbolised their rejection of the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

dailymail.com Champions League hero Didier Drogba has almost certainly kicked his last ball for Chelsea, with the club expecting him to confirm his free transfer to Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua.

PHUKET: A daily wrap of Thailand news, with a Phuket perspective, plus relevant reports from national and international media.

afp Robin Gibb, singer with the legendary British band the Bee Gees that began in Australia, died aged 62 after a lengthy battle against cancer.

telegraph.co.uk Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.

pa The Lockerbie bomber has died nearly three years after he was released from a British jail on compassionate grounds. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison for the 1988 bombing of a US airliner over the Scottish town that claimed 270 lives.

Phuket Update A young striped dolphin rescued at Phuket’s Kata beach has only a 30 percent chance of surviving, say experts at the Phuket Marine Biology Centre. A virus may prove deadly to the 1.2 metre, 20 kilo female, they fear.

nationmultimedia.com Supalai Plc has launched its latest condominium project, Supalai Park@Phuket, worth 900 million baht. The project has 504 units at a starting price below two million baht per unit. Close to Central Festival Phuket, it is designed in a tropical theme and incorporates green areas.

bangkokpost.com The Commerce Ministry plans to promote Thailand as a regional wellness and retreat hub in the medium term, starting with upgrading green hotels and resorts to organic hospitality centres: ”A few resorts in Chiang Mai, Samui and Phuket have already gone organic.”

nationmultimedia.com Demand for villas in Phuket has been recovering since the last quarter of last year, said Risinee Sarikaputra, associate director of Knight Frank Thailand: ”The main customer target is foreigners, especially Russians and Singaporeans, who are looking for holiday homes and buying in many locations in Phuket.”

dailymail.co.uk Indian Ocean tsunami survivor Sam Holland,actor grandson of Oscar-winning film director Lord Attenborough, was married in Scotland. Mr Holland’s mother Jane, 49 – Lord Attenborough’s eldest daughter – sister Lucy, 15, and his paternal grandmother, also called Jane, 81, were killed while holidaying in Phang Nga, north of Phuket on December 26, 2004.

smh.com.au French popsinger Sebastien Izambard: My best holiday was in Thailand in a hotel called Racha on a small island south of Phuket. It was just perfect. I fell in love with my wife and the country – what else could I ask for?

theaustralian.com.au Drunken lads’ holidays in Thailand and Indonesia, involving unprotected sex with prostitutes, are boosting Queensland’s HIV rate. State Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said annual rates of HIV diagnosis in Queensland had doubled in the past decade: from 2.7 per 100,000 population in 2000, to 5.4 in 2010.

bangkokpost.com Pattaya police are keeping a close eye on prostitutes in the seaside city after one of them turned a night of sex services into a night of murder and theft. Bangladeshi tourist Business Chan died after being drugged. ”I didn’t intend to kill him,” said Malee Jindawong, 33.

dailymail.co.uk A graphic film featuring a middle-aged woman traveling to Africa for sex with male gigolos has been praised at Cannes Film Festival. ‘Paradise: Love’ stars Margarethe Tiesel as a 50-year-old Austrian whose search for love turns increasingly predatory.

abc.net.au Burma is planning to restore a stretch of the infamous Thai-Burma rail line, known as the Death Railway, which was initially built by Japanese-held prisoners of war during World War II. By the time it was completed in 1943, more than 11,000 POWS, including 2815 Australians, and about 75,000 Asian laborers were dead.

bangkokpost.comMigrant Burmese children aiming at a better life through a Thai education are seeing their dreams evaporate as organisations abandon them in favor of initiatives inside Burma. International donors are now cutting funds for Thai border-based groups.

dpa About 50 Indonesians staged a flash mob to demand that Lady Gaga be allowed to perform in the country amid uncertainty about her scheduled concert in Jakarta.

dnaindia.com A beach wedding offers quite a number of advantages. To start with, there will a limited number of guests rather than a plethora of them, which is the case when holding a wedding or reception at home. Little wonder that beach weddings are gaining in popularity.

afp Tens of thousands of Chelsea fans gave their team a hero’s welcome as they made an open-top bus parade through their west London home after their Champions League win over Bayern Munich.

nationmultimedia.com With a near-flawless performance, Thailand women’s volleyball team stunned European champions Serbia 25-19 25-17 25-20 to claim three points in the World Olympics Qualification Tournament at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

May 25-27 Phuket Rugby Tens

May 26-June 5 National Youth Games, Phuket

June 8-10 Laguna Phuket International Marathon

July 18-22 Phuket Raceweek

July 21-22 Toyota motor racing at Saphan Hin, Phuket City

November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket

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