Rachel Laudan

Now let’s go up the social scale a bit and return to food. Every Monday the local paper AM runs a section called Valor Agregado (Added Value) about local León businesses.  I read it avidly as a wonderful peephole into Mexican entrepreneurship. Today, and this would be typical, among their other stories they reported on [...]

I’d like to expand a bit on Mexico Cooks (a quite gorgeous and informative blog by the way) comment on microloans and on the Mexican poor in general which she ends sadly by concluding “until the average campesino [poor country person] can change his/her true mentality from “lo que Dios nos mande” [whatever God commands] [...]

A bit out of my area, but I’ve enjoyed reading about the empirical studies that are now beginning to come in about microfinance.  Microloans sounded so good, so easy. Now we have studies of how they are working in Hyderabad, India by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, in the Philippines by Dean Karlan of [...]