The BBC publishes this story about Grameen Glasgow where the question is whether people on benefit are allowed to take out loans…
Posted by: Sabine McNeill | July 6, 2009
Grameen Glasgow, here we come!
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Sabine,
There was a convention this week about rebooting Britain organised by NESTA. Like most of these things I didn’t know before it happened, but I took up the invitation to participate in discussion about it.
The issue of microcredit in urban settings is one I raise, taking note of that BBC article.
http://www.hubculture.com/groups/265/
As is often the case, it turns out to be a very uncommunicative platform, indicating to me that there’s actually little interest.
I’m wondering also, given the apparent exclusion from the NESTA roadshow whether this is just another gravy train. Any views?
Jeff
By: Jeff Mowatt on July 8, 2009
at 10:48 am
Well done, Jeff!
But let’s face it: Yunus puts it mildly: governments and institutions are notoriously slow. So we have to “do it ourselves”. “it” being the difference that we want to see happen.
A lawyer and explicit Yunus fan told me that we’d never get the licence to run “Grameen UK”!
As part of http://www.edm1297.info I shall soon put some texts up “On the Oppression of HM Subjects”…
Sighingly yours,
Sabine
By: Sabine McNeill on July 17, 2009
at 7:17 pm
Could be, Jeff, that NESTA just pays lipservice.
Big banks bad, small banks ok, credit unions TERRIFIC is the motto for Grameen / microcredit anything.
Grameen Glasgow is happening. But a lawyer and Yunus fan told us that we’d never get a Grameen UK licence!…
I don’t have the muscle (yet), for trying, but who knows what the Universe has up its sleeve!…
By: Sabine McNeill on August 20, 2009
at 9:57 am