Posted on 10/13/2006 6:30:52 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
See for example this thread first.
This year's econ Nobel prize thank
Mohammed Yunus (Grameen Banks)
which makes Third-World loans
and doesn't make bones
'bout collateral, unlike us Yanks!
Seems like a class organization, helping third-world women to economic self-sufficiency.
Not the same as full industrialization, but not like France in its African colonies, either...
Cheers!
LOL, not bad, whiskers! (It's the Peace Prize, btw, not econ...)
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