please note many links currently (June 2023) not operational its been a crazy 8 years - 2015 sees 200 nations commit to 17 sdgs: everyone is actually destructing as of june 2023:official un briefings will take place college year 23-24 beginning with general assembly ny sept 2023 , climaxing with global futures general assemble sept 2024; we try and document why is humanity drowning in chaos (mathematically and humanly at many associate pro-youth webs including our 73rd year of diary of AI (Architect of Intelligence) started with the NET (Neumann Einstein Turing) princeton (ITUNYPrince year of briefing 1951 which birthed AI as humans greatest journey around mother earth: Geneva-Ny-Princeton being the golden triangle of tech futures in that year, and the roots of every digital multiplier Vin Neumann presnted as the jourmalist scoop: what good will hunns unite wherever they have access to 100+ times more tech every decade?; young people i met at first 12 months aftre launch of the sdgs sept 2015 kindly escorted me round "Z" at 25 square miles the world's largest pro-youth entrepreneurial suburb linking tsingua, peking and beijing normal universities including the hangzhou connectors of the 2015 G20. i thank you all ED ::ESports ,,,if you are a student of Ezra Vogel or my father Norman whose centenary year 2023 is, i would like to see chinese and western and pan-asian youth friendships blossom again - its beyond my paygrade to have ideas on how but always ready to listen -thanks also please join us at bard.solar and linkedin Belt Road Education Forum
thanks CHRIS.MACRAE@YAHOO.CO.UK ewtp.org ewtp.com :: alibabauni.com including ai research damo
other community rising maps of world trade - poorest billion women at abedmooc.com :: ecop26.com climate world trade :: economistdiary.com world citizen collab events :: worldrecordjobs.com alumni who's who of 2020s youth as first sustainability generation

dev2.0 people doing great trade happier than those chained to charity - SO 1 new mdb banks? 2 how freedoms to trade value planes & boats & trains?
1planes are for luxury goods- eg gourmet foods.............2boats/superports grew places over last 50years.............3trains are interesting- they can be 10 time faster than boats or as slow but celebrating trade at every border they pass through- trains also...
help turn global2.0 (world class & locally sustaining not just big gets bigger & destroys youth livelihoods as sustainability netgen) leadership summits: - belt-road 11 regional curriculum in one worldwide trading compass;
g20 :: aiib :: gateway (alibabauni.com) - into youth's jobs creating student curricula and map enterprise zones where youth and sustainability goals flourish
.eg GreenBigBang : calling one sixth of worldcitizen - if you can help governors build 2500 greenest half-million peopled places on planet join up @ alumni summits as arrowed or Q&A isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com if you know a half-million peopled supergreen place
help wanted- contribute to diaries and youth journalism of world record jobs fieldbook of global2.0 summits youth are invited to turn into jobs creating curricula matching goals of sustainability generations-which will be the top 20 www summit formats and how can media be designed so that the peoples diaries interact productively ChinaThanks.com and BeltUSAsia.com feature 11 regions : 0 China, 1 Rest Far Pacific (E&S) Japan main sponsorAlibaba hosts Olympics 2020, 2 India (host aiib 2018 and g20 2019) & Bangla, 3 Russia, 4 East Europe, 5 West Europe (host of G20 2017), 6 N America (host of gateway17) & Stans (host SCO 2017) and middle east (host of greatest open education summits), 8 Med Sea (most urgent refugee conffict space) 9 Africa, 10 S America where Argentina hosts G20 and fatherland of moral cultures leadership Pope Francis and Preferential Option Poor Franciscan civilisations.
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Friday, June 11, 2010

WILL THE BILLION TIMES MORE ANALYTIC GENERATION VALUE SUSTAINABILITY IN TIME
The world record book of job creation invites you to explore a right old muddle [i]as the 21st century comes of age. We who represent the human race today are connected by about a billion times more analytic power than when computers helped man race to the moon in 1960s.

This is the consequence of a doubling of computing power every 18 months over half a century. Given this extraordinary exponential dividend, why are we not yet positioned to celebrate natural and human sustainability around which over 7 billion beings can all look forward to wonderful livelihoods? The strange answer seems to be that in the wealthiest parts of hemispheres that generated the greatest advances from the industrial revolution, professional mindsets and constitutional regulations have lost the analytical goodwill and purposeful human sense and grounded structures needed so that family's savings are communally invested in better livelihoods for our children. (Beggar thy neighbour 90 day extraction.  spreadsheet by mba mindsets, is mathematically the least sustainable metric any human exchange could be spun round)

Much of this book will focus on the search for good news of where this inter-generational system error has never destroyed local service and mutual attention. Its these grassroots valoues that have also designed the most extraordinary mobile 21st C apps  - collaborative entrepreneurial revolution and open society trust has freed the opportunity to go beyond the scarcity economics of consuming up things to valuing how life-shaping knowhow, openly networked, multiplies value in use.

This book is dedicated to my father Norman Macrae who journalised Keynes' end-poverty rational optimism for much of the 20th century. Being the first journalist to celebrate students early experiments with digital learning networks was one of the great joys that enabled him to help transform a third ranked English weekly magazine into an unique global viewspaper. As Andrew Knight was said speaking at a remembrance party " Norman's abiding enemy was the conventional wisdom" . Norman saw in the internet the chnace to design the smartest open learning connections that hade ever been shared directly between human beings- in critical ways the exact opposite of what broadcasting tv had mediated. His 1984 book 2025 Report, written partly to oppose the Orwellian doomsday endgame,  timelined   exponential sustainability crises of the net generation.It included these 2 particular predictions. To the extent that they have not yet been recognised in cultural deeds, elders now need to attend to helping every millennial value them now



[i] Father Norman Macrae's first job as a teenager was navigating air planes in world war 2 over modern-day Bangladesh. His diaries are riddled with another right old muddle today: each is a story of a friend whose flight did not return. Earlier as he reached adolescence, he spent his summers in the British embassy in Moscow where his father was a consular. In that context, right old muddles journalised when friendly local staff didn't return from Stalin's purges. These are reasons why Norman sought to spend his working life as an end-poverty economist mediating a global viewspaper around questioning: when does a little sister system designs compound more open society worth and goodwill of investment valuation, than those that spin inter-generationally as too big to exist.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

I am pleased to be informed that The Economist is organizing
a remembrance party of Norman Macrae on 16 November
2010. Mr Macrae was a rational optimist as well as a liberal
economic journalist who was influential in both the
academic world and the world of practice. I am happy that
when I met Norman Macrae he was so enthusiastic about
Grameen Microcredit, Social Business and our own
entrepreneurial economics in Bangladesh. Over the years
Norman made important contributions in several capacities.
To many, he was best known as a prudent futurist.
I look forward to the publications, including the Journal of
Social Business, which friends of Norman Macrae are helping
support. This will not only raise the profile of the sector in
general, I feel the platform for improvement and growth of
what this journal has started will be successfully set.
I believe the article "Consider Bangladesh" by Norman
Macrae will play a key role in promoting the concept of
social businesses. I sincerely thank Macrae Family for
promoting Social Business and I wish success in all its
endeavors.
Sincerely,
Muhammad Yunus

How to Avert A Great Depression Through the Hungry 2010s?
Answer, By Making All Banking Very Much Cheaper
This was Norman Macrae's last article written in December 2008
If banks in rich democracies had been truly competitive
institutions, at least one of them somewhere would have seized
the main opportunity created by the computer. This main
opportunity was to make all deposit-banking vastly cheaper than
ever before. By this cheapening it should make such banking
hugely more profitable. Then further competition would search
for the cheapest ways to guide all the world's saving into the
most profitable (or otherwise most desirable) forms of capital
investment, thus enriching all mankind.
Instead, during 2008 the total losses of banks in rich democracies
- in North America, West Europe and Japan - soared into trillions
of dollars. Fearful for their solvency, these banks virtually stopped
lending. The issuance of corporate bonds, commercial paper, and
many other financial products largely ceased. Hedge and
insurance firms also crashed. Mankind is thus threatened in the
2010s with its longest great depression since the hungry 1930s.
Why? The strange answer seems to be that other happy
consequences of modern technology promised to make this
cheapening even faster. Call centres in Bangalore vastly undercut
the middle class salaries of Midland bank clerk who until the
1950s expensively answered clients' questions in their branches
in the City of London. Cheap mobile phones kept village ladies in
once miserable Bangladesh as fully in touch with market prices as
is the chief research officer of the First National Bank of
Somewhere in California. His weekly salary is still 1000 times
greater than the previous annual earnings of that village lady. The
cost-effective way of running the old Midland or First National
then seemed to be to cut its total salary cost by something like
99%. This did not please Western welfare governments, or the
decent chief executives of the old Midland or First National bank.
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Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block
- WS Gilbert in The Mikado - why it is uncomfortable to work in an
industry which needs 99% redundancies.
Western welfare governments have long preferred to run their
banks in high cost cartels, and even invented reasons why this
seems to be moral. Their deposit-banks have usually kept in cash
only 10% of the total amount deposited with them. If 11% of
depositors suddenly feared that their banks might go bust, this
could accelerate a run that would send them bust indeed.
Governments therefore thought that depositors would be less
fearful if they were assured that the banks were officially and
tightly regulated. Actually, this mainly meant that the banks had
to hire ever more expensive lawyers so as to escape any crippling
consequences from this regulation. The attached quote shows
that Samuel Pepys understood this fact of life in his Diaries of July
21, 1662.
I see it is impossible for the King to have things done so cheaply
as do other men
- Samuel Pepys on discovering an important commercial fact of
life in his Diary, 21 July, 1662
The decent bosses of the deposit banks felt that the best way of
avoiding sacking nine tenths of their staffs was by competing
with a very different sort of financing called merchant banking
whose earnings and bonuses were far more generous than those
given to their own staff. These merchant banks were of peculiarly
differing pedigree. In London, it was assumed that they could best
be run by families like Barings who had done the job for over 200
years. In the 1990s, Barings went totally bust because one of its
hired traders bet much of its money on a hunch that a bad
earthquake in Japan meant that the shares of Japanese banks and
insurance companies would become more profitable. In Zurich,
merchant banks felt it most moral to keep the accounts of their
depositors totally secret, especially if these accounts were being
used to defraud their own countries' tax authorities. In 2008 those
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secretive banks were then defrauded. In Wall Street, Goldman
Sachs and Lehman Bros bid up their annual bonuses to millions of
dollars for each partner. In 2008 even Goldman Sachs made a loss
and Lehman Bros went bust.
A former chairman of the Federal Reserve argues that "fearful
investors clearly require a far larger capital cushion to lend
unsecured to any financial intermediary now". He therefore thinks
that taxpayers money should be ladled into them to make those
investors less fearful. This seems far more likely to make
depositors intermittently more terrified and cause any depression
into the 2010s to linger on and on.
In the 1930s, the chief economic adviser to the government of
Siam was called Prince Damrong. I try always to remember it
- quote from former director of International Monetary Fund.
One of the few big banks to make a profit in 2008 was the
Grameen Bank (which means Village Bank) in that once basketcase
country called Bangladesh. The sole staff in a branch serving
several villages was once a woman student. It is now more usually
someone who has learnt to use the computer in the right way.
The rest of this report will examine how this marvellously costcutting
operation works. Perhaps the most relevant and terrifying
analogy is to commercial airlines. In 1945, there were only a tiny
number of passenger airmiles flown on them. In each successive
year these increased hugely and in this slump time 2009 there will
be billions of passenger airmiles flown. In the late 1940s most
governments therefore created national airlines and were
confident they would flourish in this boom industry, with official
regulation assuring they would be safe. Instead all proceeded to
lose money, and later privatised but large airlines also did. The
present trend is to cost cutting airlines like Ryan Air.
The same will happen to banks. Large banks mislending to the
rich have run into losses that have created the slump. Politicians,
thinking they are saving the world, are mislending huge sums to
these mislenders and will eventually make the slump worst.
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How to create cost-cutting banks? To begin with Consider
Bangladesh - peculiar as this may seem.
START IN A STARVING VILLAGE
The Nobel peace prize for 2006 was controversially awarded, in
Oslo, to a "banker for the poor" in usually unfashionable
Bangladesh. Since the microcredit system pioneered by this Dr
Muhammad Yunus really has lifted record millions of Bangladeshi
women from the world's direst poverty, some of the world's
toughest tycoons have thrilled to his stated aim to "harness the
powers of the free market to solve the problems of poverty".
To his fans' delight and astonishment, he is achieving exactly that.
In the past quarter of a century, his Grameen Bank has lent
(without collateral or lawyers) increasing billions of dollars to
millions of poor women in the previously starving villages of
Bangladesh, and got an extraordinary 99% repayment back. His
often illiterate customers have started millions of successful small
businesses in unimagined fields like mobile telephone ladies and
saleswomen of the world's cheapest yogurt. All these successes
have been won by keeping costs incredibly low. A banking
operation that would cost Goldman Sachs $100 in New York or
London would cost Grameen in Bangladesh well under 100 cents.
This is a huge development in human history. Money can now be
directly channelled into productive use by the world's poorest
people, while unsuccessful lending to the rich has caused a world
slump. How do we switch custom to cost-cutting banks?
During Bangladeshi's terrible famine year of 1974, Dr Yunus ( who
had won his doctorate in economics in a free market American
university, which most founders of banks have not done) came
back to his 1940 birthplace of Chittagong, as professor of
economics at the university there. He started lecturing on his
republic's 5 year plan, which like most 5 year plans was economic
nonsense. In search of reality he took a field party of his students
to one of the nearby famine threatened villages. His group
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analysed that all 42 of the village's small businesses (such as tiny
farm plots and market stalls) were indeed going bust unless they
could borrow a tiny total $27 on reasonable terms.
The first thought was to give the $27 as charity. But Yunus lectured
that a social business dollar, which had to be paid back after
careful use in an income generating activity was much more
effective than a charity dollar, which might be used only once and
frittered away. The careful use of loans in very small quantities,
says Yunus "means that you bring in a business model, you
become concerned about the costs, the revenue, how to bring
more efficiency, new technology, how to redesign, every year you
review the whole thing. Charity doesn't bring that whole
package".
Mercifully, all those first 42 tiny loans were fully repaid, and lent
back. After 9 years of further experiments, Yunus in 1983 founded
his Grameen Bank. Its priority was to make loans that were
desperately needed by those of the poor that did repay them.
Indeed, he argues that "access to credit is a human right so long as
that credit is repaid". This is the reverse of the usual banking
priority, which is first (and in credit crunches only) to make the
safest loans those to the rich that can provide collateral.
In these last 25 years, Grameen has provided increasing $billions
of loans to poor people with that astonishing 99% repayment
rate. In 2006, it had 7 million borrowing customers, 97% of them
women, in 140,000 villages of Bangladesh. Microcredit had by
then reached 80% of Bangladesh's poorest rural families. Over half
of Grameen's own borrowers had successful small businesses. The
women borrowers predominated because they usually are the
poorest people in rural Islam and proved best in paying back.
When a Grameen bank manager goes to a new village, he has
entrepreneurially to seek for poor but viable borrowers. He earns a
star if he achieves 100% repayment of loans, and other stars if his
customers are fulfilling most of the 16 guarantees that all
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customers are asked to pledge, ranging from intensive vegetable
growing, through sending all their children to school, to
renouncing dowries. A branch with no stars would be in danger of
closing, so borrowers rally round with suggestions, such as which
unreliable repayers to exclude. Borrowers from the bank who do
repay are called owners of the bank and receive incentives such as
opportunities for insurance, and for winning university
scholarships for their children.
A GENERATION ON - ENTREPRENEURIAL FUTURES ARE MOBILISING
An extraordinary income generator was the profession of
telephone ladies. They borrowed enough to buy a cheap mobile
phone from a Grameen subsidiary. They draw fees for phoning to
see if more profitable prices for crops are available in a
neighbouring village, and from anybody who wants to hire the
phone to contact the outside world. This is a job that could only
become important in a microcredit setting. The owner of a mobile
phone in richer suburbia would not find many customers to hire
her set.
One special desire of Yunus was to improve the nutrition of poor
children in Bangladesh, and he formed a social business with the
largest French food multinational. This Grameen-Danone test
marketed to find what sorts of fortified yogurt Bangladeshi
children would like. Although Danone at first wanted large plants
with refrigerated systems, Grameen won the debate to make them
small plants which bought local milk learnt a lot about sales of a
new product in poor countries. A French water company is
forming a similar social business with Grameen to offer a clean
water alternative to the arsenic found in Bangladesh's rural water
supply. Some American computer tycoons may help to find the
best way to establish computer centres in remote villages. The
telephone ladies will then face competition, but constant
competition in new technology is one name of this game.
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Nobody is suggesting that Goldman Sachs, when it recovers,
should operate precisely in Yunus' mode. But some competition in
sharply cutting costs in most banks will have to be part of the
world's new banking system.
Short Biography: As a teenager, Norman began studying
economics from an Indian correspondence course in (today's)
Bangladesh whilst waiting to navigate RAF airplanes in the World
War Two. His father-in-law was mentored for a quarter of a century by
Gandhi, one Bar of London Barrister to another, on how to end Raj
Imperialism. He went on to write over 2000 editorials from the
microeconomics perspective of Free Markets & Entrepreneurial
Revolution for The Economist, and in 1984 mapped what alternative
futures micro versus macro economic worlds of the first networking
generation will spin.
Considers by Norman Macrae
Since 2008 Consider Bangladesh
Since 1984 Consider www
Since 1976 Consider Entrepreneurial Revolutio n
Since 1975 Consider 1976-2075 as Asia Pacific Centu ry
Since 1962 Consider Japan
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