Phoenix In Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, and Hamilton ACORN International and ACORN Canada joined today to dramatically step up the international campaign to achieve improved access and fair pricing for remittances from immigrant families and their relatives in their home countries. Today in Toronto Kay Bisnah, President of ACORN International, also unveiled an extensive report underpinning …
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Crisis of Accountability for Microfinance in India
New Orleans Microfinance has many positives, but should never be confused or misnamed as a “poverty reduction” strategy. There is simply no way to reduce poverty through debt. Microfinance or microcredit or micro-lending or whatever the name has a value for the poor as a way to access minimal credit to create or improve livelihoods, …
Obama and India FDI
New Orleans President Obama continues to sightsee and glad hand his way across India on his sales trip for US business interests, soft shoeing around the issue of jobs being outsourced to India, even as he argues to the US press that by meeting his sales quota over there, he will create jobs over here. …