12 dezembro 2006

ECOPOL

Mohammad Yunus já recebeu o Prémio Nobel da Paz de 2006. Altura para lembrar que o seu sistema de microcrédito também tem críticos: "Easy Money" ("The research is skimpy, but the research we do have shows increasingly that the main hope for microcredit--that it will generate millions of tiny businesses and these businesses will grow and pull their owners over the poverty line--is false," says [Thomas Dichter, who has evaluated microcredit programs in 20 countries, including India (and) wrote the 2003 book Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed.]. "That is not happening.")