Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet by Todd Wilkinson & Ted Turner

Author:Todd Wilkinson & Ted Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780762784431
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2013-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

Muhammad Yunus, the economist who founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, sits on the UN Foundation board. He has been a pioneering force in the micro-lending movement taking hold in the developing world. In 2006, he won a Nobel Peace Prize for his innovative approach to grassroots financing. He has demonstrated that just as trickle-down economics works in some countries, micro-lending can create a “trickle-up” effect, mirrored in some of the investments made by the UN Foundation. He knows how a little can go a long way and how a lot, when everyone pitches in what they can, can literally change the world.

The announcement that Yunus had won the Nobel coincided with Ted’s birthday. The UN Foundation threw a party for both men at the Willard Hotel in Washington. Turner looked out at the audience, which included former president Bill and then US senator Hillary Clinton, Tim and Wren Wirth, capitalist George Soros, and a wide range of Democrats and Republicans, including Carla Hills, who had served as a trade envoy for President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Turner said it was startling “to have assembled so many do-goodersin one room—people whose stated ambition is to do no harm while attempting to help the weak.”

Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and author of the blog The Washington Note, was inspired by the night to write an essay for the Huffington Post. “Yunus and the Grameen Bank are what transformational diplomacy ought to look like—and Soros, Yunus, Turner, Carla Hills, Tim Wirth and others there last night are the world’s real transformational diplomats,” he wrote.

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