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...there's surprisingly little evidence that promise can be met. No long-term study has measured how often borrowers graduate to the middle class. "Is microcredit a cure for entrenched poverty?" asks Northeastern University professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand, who focuses on microfinance. "There aren't the statistics to prove that...
Unfortunately with so much money flowing into microfinance, many donors have lost patience with investing in long-term development infrastructure. Dyal-Chand estimates that at least half of development aid has been diverted to microlending over the past two decades. "There's nothing sexy about hospitals, schools, roads, sanitation projects," she says. "But those are all the things the truly poor desperately need...
Directed by H. KAYE DYAL Screenplay by ELLEN GEER
...other three instruments were anything but idle. Radioing data constantly, ALSEP's magnetometer indicated that the moon's magnetic field-which could offer important clues to the lunar interior-may be considerably stronger than had been believed. Palmer Dyal, one of the magnetometer experimenters, had an esoteric, but speculative explanation: after a period of vulcanism, the moon cooled more rapidly than scientists had heretofore thought, thus preserving a larger portion of its primordial magnetic field...