Durreen Shahnaz | The Defiant Optimist | Talks at Google

Professor Durreen Shahnaz discusses her book The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women, which offers strategies for placing women, the underserved and the planet at the heart of systems.
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Professor Durreen Shahnaz is a Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX). A global leader in sustainable finance and impact investing, she is a 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award Honoree, a financial rainmaker in Forbes 50 over 50, and an Asia Society Game Changer Awardee. Over the last 14 years, IIX has connected the Back Streets of underserved communities to the Wall Streets of the world and has unlocked close to US$300 million of capital, impacting over 150 million lives and promoting climate action across the globe.
Moderated by Nalini Singh.

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Looking forward to reading the book!

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[@Ryanandboys]

It's also true that in America and other Anglo countries the most elite people that also have the highest average family income are South Asian or East Asian. There are a few reasons why that's the case but nonetheless that proves beyond any reasonable doubt that there really isn't any biased against " brown people" this idea that South Asians are oppressed is pretty silly I mean I'm sure it happens here and there or used to happen but it's subjectively not the case anymore. I'm a huge fan and have many friends who are from India from my time in tech And I think the next hundred years will be the Indian century.

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I'm not sure how brave she is now d e i inclusion now is the status quo It has been for about 10 years. And if you look over the last 100 years poverty has fallen fastest human history living standard they're drastically higher especially for people and very poor countries of course relative to develop countries they are still very poor but that's not the comparison that's accurate or important the comparison is what their life would have been like 50 or 100 years ago and inclusion is not how you solve that it's by changing government policies that lead to pre-market economies lower corruption and crime in opportunities to priest there marginal productivity. Walmart probably the company in the world that's helped the most amount of poor people home in the United States with 40% lower prices and general stores and in China by employing millions of people with wages that are a few hundred percent higher than what was available before. Another example would be call centers in like Indian the Philippines My girlfriend is from the Philippines in the wage available at a call center is literally 10 times higher than any other job she can get locally in the West we think of those businesses as bad because they only pay $3 an hour while she makes 30 cents an hour doing any other job if a job is even available.