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...pressure to turn a profit often forces microfinanciers to change their business models in ways that depart from the industry's original purposes. As Al Amana, Morocco's largest outfit, has shifted from grants to commercial funding, its average loan size has roughly tripled; smaller loans to the most desperate borrowers are costlier to service. One consequence of commercialization is that a lower percentage of loans go to women because they tend to take out smaller sums, according to a recent study by Women's World Banking...
Axel Brugger, who will graduate from a mid-career master’s program today, said the speech reminded him of the words on the gates of Harvard Yard which read “Enter to grow in wisdom” and on the inside “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
...least once a day. But for all of its traffic, few students notice the carved inscriptions in the stone arch above the gate. The outside of the gate reads, “Enter to grow in wisdom,” while the inside bears the message, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
...majority of seniors depart Harvard with positive impressions of their undergraduate experience, some say that they wouldn’t mind staying longer. “I could do another 12 to 16 years here,” Philip R. Goldfarb ’08 said. “I can’t imagine anywhere else I’d be a better academic or have a better social experience...
...despite the news last September that agents of Blackwater USA, the private security contractor, were responsible for the senseless deaths of at least 14 innocent Iraqi civilians. The mercenaries responsible have enjoyed impunity for their deadly carelessness; nearly nine months have passed since the Iraqi government demanded that Blackwater depart, and the firm remains—enduring only a tasteful corporate redesign. In April, their contract was renewed for another year...