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In 2001, the company’s annual report showed revenues had dropped 26% between 2000 and
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$16.2 billion loss in net income for 2001. Besides the fall in revenue, the company had to eat a host of other losses. For starters, accounts
receivable: those long-term payment contracts with fiber overbuilder start-ups did turn out
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and other developing countries, and widely advocated community participation in development. His particular contribution was the establishment of a comprehensive project for rural development, the Comilla Model (1959). It earned him the Ramon Magsaysay Award from the Philippines and an honorary Doctorate of Law from Michigan State University . In the 1980s he started a bottom up community development initiative of Orangi Pilot Project , based in the outskirts of Karachi , which became a model of participatory development initiatives. He also directed many programmes, from microcredit to self-finance and from housing provision to
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Global Head of Philanthropy Services at UBS Maximilian Martin poses before a panel discussion at the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Geneva October 8, 2007. Credit: Reuters/Denis Balibouse By Alison Tudor and Yuka Obayashi TOKYO | Tue Oct 9, 2007 10:58am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS ( UBSN.VX ) is expanding its wealth management business in Japan, bringing its brand of tailored banking to the rich of the world's second-biggest economy. UBS, the world's biggest wealth manager, is in its third year of operation in Japan and is busy pulling in new clients. "We have been opening accounts on a daily ...
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