Studies Find Microfinance Does Not Reduce Poverty, Assets Do

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Hamburg  Several years ago ACORN International did a research report that seemed heresy to many, but started from the simple proposition that since microfinance is debt, debt does not reduce poverty, therefore the value of microfinance was the same as buying a job through an employment agency: work at a steep price. For many the …

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Hard Ball Politics and Hidden Cameras in the House of Labor

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Buckhorn Lake,    Ontario Unions wear politics like a second shirt, always in the closet ready to grab off the hanger and put on. Because they are membership organizations, labor leaders in their normal world representing workers who are their members are also always running for office as politicians in their own right. Most of the …

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China May Drop the Stock Market, but India is in Turmoil

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Kiln, Mississippi     So when we read on reputed news agencies like Forex Academy on all the big whoops worrying about their 10ks, plummeting stocks on Wall Street, and whether or not the Fed raises interest rates in Wyoming, what are the rest of us supposed to do? We have grown men and women believing in …

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