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MICROFINANCE
Volume IX, No. 2 Summer/Fall 2008

Message from the Editor

 

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MICROFINANCE

The Merits of Microfinance as a Viable Solution for Poverty Alleviation An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs

Poverty and Microfinance: An Investigation into the Role of Microcredit in Reducing the Poverty Level of Borrowing Households in Bangladesh and the Philippines by M. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury

 

Does the Microfinance Lending Model Actually Work? by Rafael Gomez and Eric Santor

 

Romanticizing the Poor Harms the Poor by Aneel Karnani

 

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS

Sovereign Wealth Funds and the International Monetary System by Anthony Elson

 

CULTURE AND DIPLOMACY

The Culture Impact on China's New Diplomacy by Wilfried Bolewski and Candy M. Rietig

 

COUNTRY OUTLOOK: BRAZIL

Microinsurance for Brazil: The GILR-Bond by Bernardo Weaver

 

Brazil: Keeping the Lights On by Susana Moreira

 

THE GLOBAL ALMANAC

Law Markets: A model for Predicting Laws, Governments, and Institutions by Graham Lawlor

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Identity and the Bomb by Michael Busch

 

The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics by Mahmud A. Faksh