Dutch microfinance
People tend to consider Microfinance something exotic. Maybe it is time to tell the West about their own microfinance phase that started at the end of the 19th century and is still under development....
View ArticleKiva microfinance database snapshot
Found a package ! It must be Christmas already, I found a file this afternoon with 630 Mb microfinance loan data from the Kiva website. Let”s see what it is in the package… 1300 XML-format files with...
View ArticleDoes microfinance make the poor poorer ?
Sometimes it does, however, that is not inherent to microfinance but economy in general. The poor always get poorer in case of trade deficits and inflations. Keynes’ split production in three factors,...
View ArticleAccessing the Kiva Api with Visual Basic
Kiva list a Dot Net Api class in C# so writing your own in Visual Basic is a tat obsolete were it not that I already had a complete database to process the data dump and I wanted a basic … Continue...
View Articlemicro-investing
Whilst Asia are busy discovering microfinance, it seems over here in the West we are adding a new branche to microfinance, micro-investing. Initially that seems to have centered around crowdfunding....
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