International Day for Empathic Action: An IDEA whose time has come!

One potentially catastrophic issue facing the developing world today is the shortage of food. The global food crisis, which made headlines last year and persists today, is expected to worsen as the human population grows, climates change and international consumption remains – or becomes more – uneven and inefficient. Finding solutions that stabilize food supplies requires participation from political leaders, to farmers, to your next-door neighbor – and the timeline is long, involving a fundamental restructuring of our global economy.

In the meantime, by economically empowering low-income people in developing economies, microfinance can help the poor to survive the peaks and valleys of food prices and supplies.

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Wall Street Journal: Debunking Myths about the Poor and Financial Services

“The power of finance to transform the lives of the poor is not well understood,” claims the Wall Street Journal in its September 4th feature, “Debunking Myths about the Poor and Financial Services.” Authors Suyash Rai and Sona Varma refute microfinance skeptics by correcting errors in conventional thinking, while making the case that microfinance is both feasible and necessary.

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