Microcredits, Blessing or curse – A multi-part series about the pros and cons on micro finance, Part 3 by Sabriye Tenberken After having examined the opportunities and challenges of micro finance in the first two blog entries, in Chapters 1 to 4, I will now focus on possible motives of the lenders and their business […]
kanthari Blog 05-02-2021 Read More »
Microcredit, a magic wand to fight poverty or profitable business at the cost of the poor? – Multi series on microfinance, part 2 by Sabriye Tenberken “The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.” – Muhammad Yunus,
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Microcredit, a magic wand to fight poverty or profitable business at the cost of the poor? – A multi-series blog with proponents and critics of micro finance by sabriye tenberken A springboard to get out of poverty “Things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find
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Periodismo: Un pilar inestable de la democracia? por Chacko Jacob No es tan fácil pintar una imagen general del periodismo hoy en día, hay demasiados tipos diferentes para eso. Hay quienes, en su mayoría empleados de forma permanente, tienen un horario regular y tienen que entregar algo todos los días. Hay quienes viven para su
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Journalisme: un pilier instable de la démocratie? par Chacko Jacob Il n’est pas si facile de brosser un tableau général du journalisme d’aujourd’hui, il en existe trop de types différents pour cela. Il y a ceux qui, pour la plupart, ont un emploi permanent, ont un horaire régulier et doivent livrer quelque chose tous les
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Investigative Journalism – The marginalized 4th pillar. By Chacko Jacob It is hard to comment on journalism as a whole, as it is too wide a profession. There are types of journalists that have a regular schedule, there are types who’s lives are at risk for what they report about, and a thousand other variants.
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Why should you scale up? by Chacko Jacob Growth is inherent in everything around us. The universe is constantly expanding. Most lifecycles of organisms involve mitosis which leads to an increase in size and strength. Humans refer to striving towards personal betterment as growth. Increased revenue through expanding geographical area of operations and customer base
kanthari Blog 08-01-2021 Read More »
Imagine jails without inmates Paul and I vividly remember a very special event many years ago, a reading of my third book “The Seventh Year”. The book is a description of a cinematically documented climbing blind expedition, a journey leading up to an altitude of more than 6500 meters that came along with risks, and
Corona Blog 01.01.2021 Read More »
“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern McLellan Well… we have finally reached a new year, and hopefully one that will go into the history books as ‘the year in which the Corona virus was defeated’. Thinking about it, it is
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Stairways to change 2020 was special in many aspects. At the beginning of the COVID crisis, we were wondering what this year has in store for kanthari. Questions and concerns ran through our minds: Do we have to close down? How can we keep the team together? How can we justify our existence without the
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