Monthly Archives: September 2007

Micro-lending, as Much Fun as Philanthropy

 
Maybe you first heard about micro-lending ages ago. How entrepreneurs in developing countries are given a small loan as seed money to start a new business. And how women, especially, have had such a good record in repaying those loans. 
 
I first got excited about micro-lending in the 1990s, by a program inspired by the work of the Bangladeshi [...]