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Alvin Hall, TV presenter and Wall Street veteran, travels the world to put a new breed of businessmen and women to the test. People who say they are are more interested in doing good than making money. Alvin meets the Social Entrepeneurs who would change the way the world works but, just like everybody else, have bills to pay and businesses to grow. Alvin is setting the challenges, can the social entrepreneurs deliver the results?

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You are watching KIVA Season 1 Episode 8

Alvin Hall, a business and financial expert, is travelling the world helping social entrepreneurs – business people more interested in doing good than making money – become more successful. Can the poor borrow their way out of poverty? Alvin aims to find out by lending just $25 to two small business women in Tanzania, via Kiva, a global micro-finance website. Can Alvin help Kiva achieve its ambitious goal of reducing global poverty by linking lenders directly to small entrepreneurs, using the power of the internet?

  • On site 01 April 2010
  • Air date 03 April 2010
  • Produced for BBC World

TV Series — Alvin's Guide to Good Business

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