Tag Archives: Nobel Peace Prize

Is microfinance a neo-liberal con?

A new book by Milford Bateman, who is described as “a freelance consultant specialising in local economic development policy, particularly in relation to the Western Balkans,” is described in the following terms on the publisher’s website: Over the last thirty years or so, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to… Read More »

Fukuyama on Dead Aid

Fukuyama wrote a review of Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid, and the somewhat less popular The Challenge for Africa by Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. The following paragraph raises a very important issue about the problem with African countries. The roots of Africa’s political malaise go far deeper than the post-independence foreign-aid regime. Unlike East… Read More »