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When Microfinance Becomes Poverty Management Instead of Poverty Alleviation

I've given out hundreds of microloans and I realize I'm just helping people survive poverty better rather than actually helping them escape it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Small-scale interventions can inadvertently maintain the status quo they're designed to challenge.

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“Where Are You with Microfinance — small loans and global poverty?”

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