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01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]