What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world? 4,033,920 unique lender-borrower connections. March 2011 Kiva loans top $2,000,000,000 Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva on Vimeo . January 1, 2005 – June 22,
Take the quiz. An article from USA Today on the ISI report. Breakdown of the results. It is unfortunately not surprising that the questions on basic economics were among the ones with the lowest percentage scored
Peter Boettke from The Austrian Economists : “It is with great pleasure that I announce that Dan D’Amico successfully defended his dissertation on Tuesday April 22, 2008. Dan is a deep thinker and committed Austrian economist and radical libertarian social thinker. His dissertation addressed the ‘imprisoner dilemma’. D’Amico uses economic analysis
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