Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'”
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, and here for his first three points.
Chad’s fourth point was:
Tom over at A View from the Cave has a link to Owen Barder’s (excellent) remarks at the 2011 Engineers Without Borders’ Kumvana conference, which was held last week in Toronto and is Canada’s largest international development conference.
Anyone with an interest in development policy — and in how to make foreign aid more effective — should watch the whole thing.