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AI in the Press: Article Detail |
Giving Micro-credit Where It's Due
Author: Ani RUDRA SILWAL
Nepali Times
Date: 08/02/2005
Annotation: "Far away from the corruption and default scandals in the big banks in Kathmandu's glare of the national media, there is a quiet rural revolution going on in the tarai. 1,500 small village banks... have been bringing new hope for giving women income, empowering them and raising the nutritional standards of their children."
This article describes the Women's Empowerment Project (WEP) that consultant Mac Odell has described in an article, also posted on the Commons, called Impacts before Interventions:
The Unusual Role of Empowerment and Inquiry.
Resource Files:
Nepali Times Article (doc )
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