Barack Obama's job at the moment is to get elected and he may not be more radical than that.
But I was struck by this passage in the biography of his mother on the Time website, Ann Dunham. I wonder how much he knows about it. If/when he gets drawn into a series of meetings about restructuring the global economy, I wonder if people will try to lobby him to get this sort of thing included on the agenda. There will be lots of parts of the world that will need reconstruction, and it will be better from the bottom up. "Ann's most lasting professional legacy was to help build the microfinance program in Indonesia, which she did from 1988 to '92-before the practice of granting tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs was an established success story. Her anthropological research into how real people worked helped inform the policies set by the Bank Rakyat Indonesia, says Patten, an economist who worked there. "I would say her work had a lot to do with the success of the program," he says. Today Indonesia's microfinance program is No. 1 in the world in terms of savers, with 31 million members, according to Microfinance Information eXchange Inc., a microfinance-tracking outfit. " Chris Burford London _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
