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Learning from Microfinance's Woes

Harvard Business Review

A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture about microfinance, and got sucker-punched. Expecting to hear a litany of pros and cons about the business, and an exploration of good and bad models, I was instead greeted with a knockout punch: Microfinance doesn't work, at least not in the way we think it does. That's nice.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

December 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010. January 2010. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008.