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microcredit
Beyond Microfinance
Posted on Saturday, May 5th
By David Stoker, Guest Author After 2005 was declared the year of Microcredit and 2006 had the father of microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, microcredit has become a mainstream concept and strategy in poverty alleviation. (Even my eighty-year old grandfather is a lender on Kiva.org now) However, with increased attention comes
The Education Problem: Raj Reddy (Part 13)
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 21st
Raj continues to address his concept of taking bandwidth to underdeveloped populations. SM: It is just sunk costs, that should be OK. RR: They just need to bite their tongues and assume it is all lost, and it will come back via economic growth. So, that is the first problem I would like to solve;
