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Bangladesh: Microfinance as panacea

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 @ 19:28 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Bangladesh
Topics:: Development

Words and Bites on microfinance being offered as a panacea for all development issues.

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Ben

My wife works for a humanitarian group that is looking at micro financing groups in Ghana. Sadly, a lot of businesses want to support the movement only for the PR. When they find out that the group is going to help people and not spread PR the money disapears.

# 2008-05-20 at 20:26 pm

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