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...going to say "Congratulations" on your nomination to be Treasury Secretary (who knew when we were in Tokyo together in the early '90s that you'd end up with your name on U.S. currency someday?). But I'm not sure congratulations is exactly the right word, given the fiendishly parlous economic times in which we now live. I do wish you luck, though, and in this little missive I'll try to offer a bit of advice...
...benefit, there is also a clear risk of mission drift. One particularly disturbing trend - since you can't talk about poverty alleviation without talking about women's economic empowerment - is a decrease in the percentage of women being served as MFIs move toward a for-profit model . So making sure that profit doesn't trump mission is critically important...
...international network of microfinance institutions and banks, has helped pioneer. Individual lending is a way to allow micro businesses to start to grow, providing larger, cash-flow based loans than the group might be comfortable counter-guaranteeing. Group lending, where large groups of borrowers are jointly responsible for making sure loans are repaid, is an excellent introduction to finance for micro-entrepreneurs, but the businesses tend to remain quite small, purely income-generating activities that rarely grow to scale. Like group lending, the individual lending methodology does not require the borrower to have collateral since the MFI's lending decision...
...number of corporate chariots, ranging from Nike's (think new, cushy Air Jordans with wings) to Wal-Mart's (think used Chrysler minivan with wings.) Typically, you are offered a ride-along with the CEO to watch the big boss in Action Mode. I'm not really sure if this is designed to impress or if it's simply an effective use of the CEO's time. After all, he's got to get from A to B, so he can use this otherwise dead period to fill some idiot reporter's head with stuff. The joke's on them...
...working on oil- and gas-drilling crews at the end of October, up 11% from a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. All mining support-service jobs, including those in the coal business, were up an even larger 17%, to 343,000. Now energy companies are sure to pull back. And that could make the nation's economic recession even worse, taking job losses to areas that had so far dodged the downturn. Denver-based Delta Petroleum said it planned to cut its capital budget in half next year. Other companies are not waiting until next year...