11/08/2006
Brenda Walker did a blog here recently titled Can Microloans Keep Millions at Home?, based on Muhammad Yunus ’s work with the Grameen Bank which recently won him the Nobel Peace Prize. (I always suspect anyone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize. This includes Yasser Arafat, Le Duc Tho,Jimmy Carter, and a number of others who were given prizes for preventing World Wars One and Two, which went ahead and happened anyway.)
Jeffrey Tucker has a story on Mises.org [Microcredit or Macrowelfare: The Myth of GrameenPosted on 11/8/2006 ] which is skeptiical of Muhammad Yunus’s success, which lacks a lot in the way of evidence, and distrusts the collectivist spirit of the Microloan administrators, who say things like
which, as he says, is "very strange" for a bank. He suggests that people in Third World countries would do better with fewer regulations preventing them from making money. (This was roughly the position of the late Peter Bauer. ) But the idea that people in Third World contries thould be able to stay home is a good one, however it’s achieved. And if people do have to leave Pakistan for economic reasons, they don’t have to come to America.
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