{"id":9238,"date":"2011-12-17T09:54:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2011-12-17T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T14:54:24","slug":"small-wonder-a-new-model-of-microfinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/17\/small-wonder-a-new-model-of-microfinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Small wonder: A new model of microfinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Economis<\/em>t published the article <a title=\"Aricle in The Economist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21541429\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Small wonder: A new model of microfinance for the very poor is spreading<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CARE International, a charity, began a novel scheme in Niger in 1991 to help the poor save\u2014a basic form of banking called a village savings and loans association. This is based on savings rather than debt and managed by members of the community rather than professionals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe capitalism on a small scale is the way to avoid the problems of large scale capitalism.\u00a0 Some would call it socialism, but we aren&#8217;t allowed to use <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/11\/07\/the-s-word-a-short-history-of-an-american-tradition-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The &#8216;S&#8217; Word<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist published the article Small wonder: A new model of microfinance for the very poor is spreading. CARE International, a charity, began a novel scheme in Niger in 1991 to help the poor save\u2014a basic form of banking called a village savings and loans association. This is based on savings rather than debt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}