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Microfinance – A Failed Solution to End Extreme Poverty?

Geoff Riley

25th May 2016

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The debate continues over the effectiveness of micro finance as a long run driver of improve development. This short video from Stanford Business School provides a critique of micro finance.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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