Tag: microbusinesses

Early Retirees in New Ventures, Mostly for Fun

Jul 3, 2008

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mwkruse

in Business, Culture, Generations, Microenterprise, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

New York Times: Early Retirees in New Ventures, Mostly for Fun RISK-AVERSE? Clueless as to what P.&.L means? You, too, can be an entrepreneur. Not the hard-driving type who makes the business news pages. Rather, the laid-back, come-what-may variety. Many of them are part of the first wave of America’s 76 million baby boomers who…
What Microloans Miss

Mar 11, 2008

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by

mwkruse

in Economic Development, Economics, Microenterprise, Poverty

New Yorker: What Microloans Miss Excellent article on both the benefits and limitations of microloans. … Microloans make poor borrowers better off. But, on their own, they often don’t do much to make poor countries richer. This isn’t because microloans don’t work; it’s because of how they work. The idealized view of microfinance is that…