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EAST MEETS WEST on the road to dialogue and exchange

Throughout human history, peoples and nations have exchanged cultural experiences, knowledge, know-how, goods and products through great migratory movements, art and commerce. Since humans have been around, the migration of peoples and intercultural exchanges have played a primordial role on the evolution of our history. The rebirth of the Silk Road in 1988, under a UNESCO ten-year project entitled “Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Roads of Dialogue” (1988-1997), was a very attractive initiative — bold and ambitious. This…

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Microcredit —Interview with Ivan Pictet, Senior Managing Partner, Pictet and Cie, A Private Bank in Geneva

He is the eighth generation of a well-known banking family whose roots go back to fifteenth century Geneva. His name is well-known in the international community — both for having chaired the Foundation for Geneva and the Geneva Financial Centre, and lately in supporting the seminar on micro-credit hosted by Geneva in 2005 during the celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations. Like any banker he is discrete, but kindly accepted to meet with us despite his…

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