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Forest People May Lose Home in Kenyan Plan - NYTimes.comForest People May Lose Home in Kenyan Plan MARASHONI, Kenya — With the stroke of a pen, the last of Kenya ’s honey hunters may soon be homeless. Since time immemorial, the Ogiek have been Kenya’s traditional forest dwellers. They have stalked antelope with homemade bows, made medicine ...
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Financial Services for the Poor - Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationFinancial Services for the Poor Fewer than 10 percent of the world's poor have access to safe, affordable financial services. We are working with a wide range of public ...
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Microfinance Gateway>Open Up Your Virtual WalletWith the media hype surrounding Kiva.org and the recent launch of eBay's MicroPlace, the phenomenon of online microlending has taken off, creating a brand new virtual class of retail investors and lenders for microfinance institutions (MFIs) - perhaps changing the face of microfinance capital. H...
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The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective [Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media]We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and efficacy behind many Western initiatives to abolish poverty and speed development in Africa. ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Land of ‘No Service’ - NYTimes.comThe Land of ‘No Service’ Chief’s Island, Botswana If you travel long enough and far enough — like by jet to Johannesburg, by prop plane to northern Botswana and then by bush plane deep into the Okavango Delta — you can still find it. It is that special place that on medieval maps would have ...
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Defeating Global Poverty: Small, local banks are betterIn guest article in The Economist , Justin Lin, chief economist at the World Bank recommends that developing countries take a different approach to banking than the developed countries. Instead of focusing on building out advanced stockmarkets and encouraging large diversified global banks, ...
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Poverty News Blog: Extending credit to farmers without collateral established in UgandaA new credit program will begin to extend credit to farmers in Africa who are without collateral. The hope is that small farmers will be able to borrow money for improved seeds and fertilizer. The improved tools should be able to provide the farmers enough food to live on for a full year, and ...
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Liban Zone Poverty Reduction InitiativeThe Liban Zone Poverty Reduction Initiative is an effort to alleviate poverty, disease, and a struggle to survive that has historically bound the residents of this arid land to a cycle that they cannot break with the means at hand. This initiative intends to provide the infrastructure, tools, ...
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