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Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula
worldchanging.com - 28 days ago
Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula
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Suzie Boss: Yak herders in Mongolia may seem like the most unlikely of bank customers. There’s little infrastructure in their largely rural country, making it tough to...

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Capitalism, love, change, or leave it? - Nov 5
Energy Bulletin - — ... before they sleep they will sit out on the street, or perhaps the tiny neighborhood plaza, gossiping with the same neighbors who've been their customers all day. The same families into which their children will marry and whose sick elders they will burn candles for in the ancient stone church, founded as a Spanish colonial mission to civilize the Huichol Indians who've since retreated up into the mountains to honor their "god of the opening clouds" in peyote rituals... (X Sept 2009) Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula Suzie Boss, ...

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