kiva.org

Description: Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique ... more

kiva.org ... entrepreneurs in the developing world.

Newest Review: ... the oven to keep the sand out but he's waiting for the cost of certain building materials to come down before he does the building. Now that's what I call interest. ** Signing up ** Go to kiva.org and just figure it out. I'm not going to waste your time with a blow by blow account of how to do it because this review is more about the philosophy than the mechanics. Just believe me when I say ... more

... that it won't take more than a couple of minutes. They want your money and they aren't going to make you jump through complicated IT hoops to get it. When you sign up you can choose to have a public profile page or to be entirely anonymous. It's n...more

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kiva.org: Like Oxfam meets the Dragons' Den (3213 words)
by - written on 07/01/09 (Very useful, 449 readings)
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**A short History of Lending Money** On a hit-list of things your mother really wouldn't want to tell the neighbours that you took up for a career, a moneylender is up there near the top with murderers, child molesters, estate agents and terrorists. Despite the fact that the free movement of money through borrowing and lending has never been more recognised for its essential role in greasing the wheels of the economy, money lending has never been a very 'nice' activity. Think of the role models. There's poor old Shylock being denied his justly won and legally binding 'pound of flesh'; Jesus unceremoniously throwing the money lenders out of the temple; and the ... Read the complete review

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