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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Dec 27th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Ananya Roy’s new book on microfinance,
Poverty Capital, gives portrait to a brave new world of high interest, high performance, high risk lending—a sort of poverty bubble where results are measured in upward profit arrows rather than downward maternal mortality rates. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Dec 1st, 2009 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: | Cities: |
Mike Lydon, co-author of the new
Smart Growth Manual, tells NAC about working on the book, which strives to define “smart growth” and advise both planners and the average citizen on how to translate the concept into urban reality. Here, Lydon talks with NAC about the manual’s origins, the writing process and why the time is finally right for it. (
keep reading…)
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Ananya Roy’s new book on microfinance, Poverty Capital, gives portrait to a brave new world of high interest, high performance, high risk lending—a sort of poverty bubble where results are measured in upward profit arrows rather than downward maternal mortality rates. (keep reading…)
Mike Lydon, co-author of the new Smart Growth Manual, tells NAC about working on the book, which strives to define “smart growth” and advise both planners and the average citizen on how to translate the concept into urban reality. Here, Lydon talks with NAC about the manual’s origins, the writing process and why the time is finally right for it. (keep reading…)
