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Beyond microfinancing

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Beyond Microfinancing

If you pick up any newspaper or magazine covering economic issues, every month you will find articles about microfinancing.

The idea of microfinancing expand globalization benefits available to developing countries, by changing the way funding is accessible.

Figures do not lie. And the picture that is projected, despite the 2006 Nobel peace prize to the Grameen Bank founder, is closer to the old way of managing financial relationships with developing countries, creating what was described already in 1990 in a Museum in Germany as the “spiral of debt”.

The idea? Merging microfinancing and charity to deliver self-sustaining development.

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