There's a beautiful 20-year-old citation that doesn't map to anything that he's saying and seems from the abstract to be critical of microfinance as an enterprise.

This post brought to you by the Grameen Bank guy apparently being put in charge in Bangladesh? His bank said they had to charge 15% interest on microloans to break even and people were struggling to see the benefits back in 1998.

  • culpritus [any]
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    3 months ago

    Imagine deciding to use 'black' and 'white' as 'bad' and 'good' respectively in your article about exploitative lending and putting a header image of a black worker, and then never mentioning race or minorities anywhere in the whole article. jesus-christ

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      That sure is a wild choice for an allegedly sentient being to make in the year 2024!