Given the popularity of my initial posts on microfinance (see here and here), I continue blogging about the topic this week.
This week, however, I am blogging about microfinance as seen from within the industry. As such, I am blogging the five-point response a friend of my wife’s and mine — whom I refer to by the pseudonym “Chad” — has made to my previous two posts.
Chad works for a microfinance private equity firm and used to work for a leading online microfinance website. More importantly, Chad has traveled extensively to the field to meet with stakeholders along the microfinance supply chain. See here, here, here, and here for his first four points.
Chad’s fifth and last point was:
Farm Subsidies: J’accuse!
Last Saturday’s New York Times had a good editorial explaining why now would be a very good time to get rid of farm subsidies in the United States: