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Microfinance in Action
I have always been a bit of a skeptic about microfinance. Actually, I think it’s hard not to be, because the claims are so bold. Its proponents say it empowers women, keeps children in school, improves...
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Singurisha! This word (Kinyarwanda for "I am not for sale"), which is stamped across the back of my new t-shirt and billboards across the country, is the slogan of Rwanda's new HIV/AIDS public...
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Summer of Shining Hope
Hello and welcome to my blog for the Swearer Center International Fellowship for the Summer of 2010! My name is Sammy McGowan, and I'm a rising Senior concentrating in History with a focus in Africa....
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Today marks the thirty-fifth day of my sixty-nine day journey. As it always does, the halfway point completely snuck up on me, despite my clear recollection of the one-quarter mark (day 17; night of...
View ArticleMoneylending in Mali and Malawi
In her time as a development studies concentrator at Brown, Julie Siwicki ’10 researched Tontines, which are informal moneylending circles in Mali. Poor women in Tontines pool their money as part of a...
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Microfinance and enterprise solutions to poverty; An installation art project...
On this episode we talk to Nancy Barry about microfinance and her work with Enterprise Solutions to Poverty. The scandal with SKS Microfinance has plunged India into a state of doubt regarding the...
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