Posted on November 10, 2009 by David Vosburg
In reply to Holden’s post on GiveWell, one of my favorite blogs…
I would have to disagree with David & Basti.
MFIs do not want to provide savings products for many different reasons, but most of all because it is less profitable. The ROI on savings is far lower than that for MFIs, and so MFIs avoid [...]
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Posted on November 4, 2009 by David Vosburg
You may have been wondering why I have not written in a few weeks. No, it is not because I have been lazy, but because my main project, implementing Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) in Western Province was postponed until an important visit was made.
Last week I took the bus seven hours to Mongu [...]
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