I attended a one-day conference on Microfinance at SPU where they had a nice recommended reading list I picked up a book called “What’s Wrong with Microfinance?” This has turned out to be a fascinating and inspiring book – even though it’s ostensibly about international microfinance, many of the issues and lessons resonate with my own [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Financial Renumeration vs Reciprocity
Posted in Along the Way on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Does interest cause poverty?
Posted in Along the Way, Causes of Poverty on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this year I listened to a really interesting This American Life episode (from May 2008) on “the giant pool of money”. It seeks to understand the sources of the mortgage meltdown. My takeaway from that episode is: there was more money looking for secure income-generating investments than there were high-quality income-generating investments, of which mortgage-backed [...]
