Global Development – Bytes in the Margin

Dichter: A critique of microfinance

Sometimes when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Thomas Dichter has a critique of the overhype of microcredit. Picked up via BoingBoing and Futurismic. Yet microcredit is an almost perfect case of a phenomenon that has come to characterize much of development assistance – a widening gap between reality and propaganda. For […]

GlobalGiving featured in washington post

Uncategorized / Oscar M. / July 14, 2005

Steven Pearlstein’s column describes GlobalGiving, which is looking to hook up small donors with international aid projects. Interesting numbers, they’be raised $1.5M from 2000 donors, that’s about $750 per donor. It’s also a great example of the wisdom that’s in crowds: On its Web site, GlobalGiving provided brief descriptions of 112 development projects, asking site

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