Hunger Blog

The Hunger Blog is an open dialogue that highlights how microfinance, when combined with lifeskills and health services, empowers women to improve their incomes, safeguard their childrens’ health and achieve lasting food security.

Archive for October, 2008

Twenty Years of Credit with Education

Microfinance is the most exciting and dynamic development innovation in the past quarter century, because it provides a highly useful resource in very high demand by the poor - money! Having money offers far more options than having a bag of seeds or even a bag of fertilizer. To support the exercise of free will, money is the king of resources. But what about the information necessary to use money for good rather than ill - not just to use money to make money, but to use it to seize the new options that having more money opens up for the poor? Read more …

--Chris Dunford | 10-15-08 | Permalink | One Comment

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