Comments on: Conversation with David Roodman about microfinance http://blog.givewell.org/2009/10/02/conversation-with-david-roodman-about-microfinance/ Exploring how to get real change for your dollar. Thu, 17 May 2012 07:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Ian Turner http://blog.givewell.org/2009/10/02/conversation-with-david-roodman-about-microfinance/#comment-79509 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:34:40 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2009/10/02/conversation-with-david-roodman-about-microfinance/#comment-79509 It may well be that "huge gains in crop yields" in developing countries, but that trend does not seem to exist at the present moment. And the difference in yields between developed and developing worlds is still 3-4X. http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=478044&story_id=13944900 It may well be that “huge gains in crop yields” in developing countries, but that trend does not seem to exist at the present moment. And the difference in yields between developed and developing worlds is still 3-4X.

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=478044&story_id=13944900

]]> by: Richard Webb http://blog.givewell.org/2009/10/02/conversation-with-david-roodman-about-microfinance/#comment-79281 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:11:10 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2009/10/02/conversation-with-david-roodman-about-microfinance/#comment-79281 Marvellous conversation. Both questions and answers. I got more from it than from 3 days of panels at FOROMIC (IADB`s annual microenterprise - but really microcredit - forum held in Arequipa, Peru the last three days.) P.S. I presented a short (170 page) history of microfinance in Peru at the forum. Marvellous conversation. Both questions and answers. I got more from it than from 3 days of panels at FOROMIC (IADB`s annual microenterprise - but really microcredit - forum held in Arequipa, Peru the last three days.)
P.S. I presented a short (170 page) history of microfinance in Peru at the forum.

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