Pavlov and the Nobel Prize award

Since the beginnings of modern microfinance in the 70s, the industry continued to grow rapidly, albeit fueled by dubious assumptions related to market potential. Boosted by Nobel Prize award, thousands of new MFIs are currently being created in the lure of market potential, estimated atone and half billion of unattended clients. The estimates, however, differ drastically and there is no wide scale assessment available deducing the unattainable market strata, detrimental to sustainablemicrofinance, from the inflated estimates. The exaggerations are to be denoted as unrealistic andexcluded from the global estimates. This study intends to quantify the market wrongly assumed to form part of the microfinance market and to deduce the real size of the potential global microfinancesector, appraising the size of the market that should not be counted into the integral demand, since it isunsustainable or harmful to the players involved.

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The Popular Nobel Prize Award Banquet: Distanced Participation of an Interacting TV-audience

Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore ◽

10.7592/fejf2012.50.hugoson ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 50 ◽

pp. 49-62

Author(s):

Marlene Hugoson

Keyword(s):

Nobel Prize ◽

Prize Award

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The 1927 Nobel Prize Award in Physics

Radiology ◽

10.1148/10.3.264 ◽

1928 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 264-265

Author(s):

H. N. Beets

Keyword(s):

Nobel Prize ◽

Prize Award

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Reflections on the Cultural Background to China's Reaction to the Nobel Prize Award

Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology ◽

10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6357 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 81-100

Author(s):

Gunnar Haaland

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Civil Society ◽

Nobel Prize ◽

Armed Conflicts ◽

Controversial Issues ◽

Critical Question ◽

Cultural Conditions ◽

Prize Award ◽

Different Levels ◽

Selection Of

This paper deals with some complex and controversial issues that arose in connection with the 2010 Nobel Prize Peace award to the Chinese dissident Liu Xiao Bo. These issues involve different levels. On one level it is important not to confuse the Nobel committee’s independence of outside interference from political and other organized agencies, with the question of whether the Nobel Prize committee’s decisions can be ideological or politically unbiased in its decisions. Part of the strong Chinese reaction to the award is related to this issue. Another level deals with the Committee’s widening of the criteria to be taken into account in the selection of candidates from the original criterion focused on direct contribution to reduction of armed conflicts, to the wider issues of indirect contributions like alleviation of poverty, ecological sustainability and most crucial the issue of human rights. The last issue is particularly critical since different states have different perspectives of what constitute human rights, and what rights should be given priority on different levels of the country’s development. The main point of the article is to look at historical events and socio-cultural conditions that shape the Chine Government’s (and many citizens’) reaction to the 2010 award. This is placed in the context of the widening income differences emerging in the modern political economy of China and how these may affect the growth of civil society. The critical question is: will the reward contribute to promotion of civil society or will it lead to increased crackdown on dissident voices. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6357 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5, 2011: 81-100

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