I made my first microloan today. I first heard about it when Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace prize last year. Empowering the impoverished with small amounts of money sounded like an especially cool idea.
Microcredit is a financial innovation which originated in developing countries where it has successfully enabled extremely impoverished people to engage in […]
Our subscription to The Economist mysteriously stopped coming a few weeks back and reappeared today. I was more than pleased. The Economist is great because it is so overwhelming. A full magazine, with very few advertisements, at your doorstep every seven days. It almost like an information super highway of some kind…
I couldn’t help but […]