Color Me In!

In the past couple of weeks the microfinace debate has picked up again with the release of David Roodman's new book "Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance". Even though I haven't yet read the book, I can almost surely assert that it is an excellent and well-researched work, as I have been following Mr. Roodman's Microfinance Open-Book blog for more than a year now.



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"Every complexity, we are told, is the process of evolution. Yet our development planners seem to think that they can do better...that they can create complex things at one throw by a process called planning."

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As we all know corruption is one of the biggest challenges to sustainable economic development in all African countries, Zambia being no exception. The newly elected president Michael Sata spoke on the issue:

“I am sounding a timely warning that my Government has taken a zero tolerance…

Three years ago I had to make a decision about how much I wanted to change the world. Still drawn to Zambia after returning home from 2 1/2 years of service with the peace corps, my first thought on how to continue to make a difference was to raise money for the community school in my old village who was struggling after an NGO pulled their support. It would have been simple. Raise a few thousand dollars, build a school and feel good. As is often the case however when we…