{"id":1792,"date":"2007-07-11T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T12:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/11\/yunus-wants-japans-social-business\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:35:10","slug":"yunus-wants-japans-social-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/07\/11\/yunus-wants-japans-social-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Yunus wants Japan&#8217;s &#8216;social business&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20070711a5.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070712_yunus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/070712_yunus.jpg\" title=\"070712_yunus.jpg\" alt=\"070712_yunus.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged the government and private companies to do more &#8220;social business&#8221; to better help the poor. Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Price for his efforts to eradicate poverty, Yunus told a <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Tokyo<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> news conference that official development assistance is &#8220;a very restricted framework&#8221; because it is basically a government-to-government relationship. (\u2026) &#8220;Development is a much wider issue than government to government. That should be government to the people of the country,&#8221; the 67-year-old Bangladeshi economist said. Citing French food giant Group Danone SA, which has teamed up with the Grameen Bank to provide dairy products to low-income people, Yunus said, &#8220;What about <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Toyota<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, Panasonic social business?&#8221; Image source: avizora.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20070711a5.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\">News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>Global<span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=5\">Danone<\/a>, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\"><st1:city><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Toyota<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=2\">Matsushita Electric<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20070711a5.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kyodo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged the government and private companies to do more &#8220;social business&#8221; to better help the poor. Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Price for his efforts to eradicate poverty, Yunus told a Tokyo news conference that official development assistance is &#8220;a very restricted framework&#8221; because it is basically a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,96],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-danone","tag-toyota","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}