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With marketing savvy introduced into the equation, poverty-alleviation experts are concerned that people will be talked into loans they wouldn't otherwise want. "Most genuinely poor people are not happy with carrying debt," says international-development expert Thomas Dichter. "The danger of all this new money is that microcredit institutions will feel compelled to go out and generate more borrowers...
...Israel's Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said that the new sanctions would not "cross the red line in terms of inflicting humanitarian damage." This precaution was seconded by Rice, who said, "We will not abandon the innocent Palestinians in Gaza." She added: "We will make every effort to deal with their humanitarian needs." But aid officials are skeptical that the moves being weighed by Israel such as turning off the power supply will hurt only militants and not the Palestinian civilians, many of them refugees, crowded into the narrow Gaza Strip. One international aid representative in Jerusalem denounced...
...cast’s biggest limitation was that they lacked the enthusiasm required to hold the audience for the duration of the show. Sniderman was at times emotionally flat, and while Thomas A. Dichter ’08 was often entertaining as the Emcee, he occasionally broke character, such as in the songs “If You Could See Her” and “Two Ladies.” The cast hit all the big numbers, and did them well, but there were times when they lacked energy—and it came across...
...debts or buy consumer goods, not to generate income, according to a 2004 study by the aid group CARE Bangladesh. When it came time to pay up, the study found, borrowers were often forced to go into further debt. "If these new philanthropists did their homework first," says Thomas Dichter, an aid worker who recently examined microfinance projects in 20 countries, "they would see microcredit doesn't do much good and may even be harmful...
...hour more than adult nonretirees who, granted, are not at home as much. But this is a far bigger chunk of time than is spent online by the same cohort in countries like Japan (three hours a week) and Spain (two hours). "Search is the sleeper," says Tobey Dichter, CEO of Generations on Line, a nonprofit promoting Internet literacy among older Americans. "The idea of being able to discover your own world is very exciting...