http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/5305/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/microfinance-small-scale-neoliberalism/9684 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Controversial guest speaker at Saint Mary&#039;s says small loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world do more harm than good </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/book-microfinance-milford.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="450" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/milford_mug_shot.jpg" alt="" title="" width="173" height="235" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>It&rsquo;s been 36 years since Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus started giving startup business loans to some of his country&rsquo;s poorest would-be entrepreneurs.</p> <p>Since then microfinance has become a darling of the international development community, credited with lifting thousands out of poverty and earning Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/microfinance-small-scale-neoliberalism/9684" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/microfinance-small-scale-neoliberalism/9684#comments Ben Sichel Cooperatives co-operative develoment economics microcredit microfinance neoliberal economics Cooperatives Poverty Elimination Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:33:55 +0000 bsichel 9684 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca