Is Microfinance Helping or Hurting?

Is Microfinance Helping or Hurting? (4)

October 23, 2009 • Category: Development, India, Lead Story, Microfinance

Microfinance institutions have become fixtures in small villages and poor towns. They provide women with both money and a sense of autonomy and purpose. A year ago I decided to venture to India and get involved in this new wave of socially responsible banking. I began to realize that social responsibility was not the objective of these lenders but simply a veil to cover the true goal: money, money and more money.

Is Microfinance Helping or Hurting?

Inside SIPA

Inside SIPA: October 2009 (0)

Inside SIPA: October 2009

The latest edition of the Inside SIPA newsletter is now available online. October’s issue highlights John Kluge’s (CC ’37) $30 million gift to SIPA, Professor Stephen Sestanovich’s election to the BOD of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and a paper on the 41-day peace process following post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007. Plus, alumni standouts.

Global Public Policy Network

Invitation to the 2009 Global Public Policy Network Student Conference (0)

This year, the 2009 GPPN Student Conference will be centered on the theme, “Crisis as an opportunity; What Policies Do We Need for Sustainable Development Today?” Hosted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore the conference runs from the 11th to the 13th of November, 2009.

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