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more about #microcredit more comments → desertbloom79: Microlending = empowering women. Preach it sister, preach it!!!!! more » Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: That third question seems a little... suspect? to me. It depends on how you define both terrorism and oppression, I guess-- and if you're defining th... more » NerD: Blattella: The biggest problem with expecting changes in another country is that the benefits have to be seen first hand. It's one of the reasons I am a big sup... more » SarahMC: Thanks for this. That picture is striking, no? more » Scout: and, I'm sorry but Tanglad's time may be better spent trying to eradicate the good ol Payday Loan Company - now THERE is a terrible, terrible institut... more » MadameO asks - WWOD?: Check out Fonkoze in Haiti - fonkoze.org. They make loans to the poorest of the poor, as well as to the more traditional women's circle's/cooperative... more » Princess Leela: The international development community is prone to fads, and microcredit is the fad of the moment. The real difficulty comes in figuring out where it... more » CherriSpryte: I just spent a semester in my grad school stat class trying to quantify this exact topic. The survey data that I used was inconclusive, but there's li... more » robinsparkles: I have a microcredit loan out right now, I read about it in the paper about a year ago and immediately went onto the Kiva website and got really excit... more » clevernamehere: I'm all for taking a critical look at anti-poverty programs, but the arguments here seem really shortsighted unless Tanglad has some modifications or ... more » sportz.star: And in other news: Everything Is Complicated . . Poverty especially challenging, particularly where governments are corrupt . . . more at 11. more » haguenite: I have tremendous respect for The Netherland's fucking smart crown princess, and who is on the microcredit advisory committee to the UN, so I'm just g... more » EkaterinaBallerina: I read an article several weeks back about the new role of women in Rwanda, post-genocide. A mandate had been in effect that something like 50% of the... more » RainbowBrite: Microcredit is clearly not the silver bullet that will eliminate poverty worldwide, but I've got to believe it's better than nothing. I don't think it... more » casi nadie (loves MCC forever): Microloans work in some communities and not in others. They've had a pretty good amount of success in southern asia, but in latin america, they tend t... more » -
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Hillary Clinton Tackles Economics, Terrorism, Microlending In NY Times Profile
The New York Times Magazine just unveiled its latest issue, dedicated to global issues that impact women. Though we'll post on more of the pieces later this week, today we'll start with the magazine's interview of Hillary Clinton.
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Lifting Women Out Of Poverty: Complicated
We've always heard that microloans were a good idea — in fact, we gave to Kiva earlier this year. But Tanglad at Racialicious asserts that microcredit may be too good to be true:
