Re: Re: Tom Kruse on de Soto

There's a strongly critical article on microcredit by PEN-L alumna Gina Neff at . And a followup at . Doug

Re: Tom Kruse on de Soto

Tom Kruse wrote: >Digression for Jim Devine: regarding the argument that elites would be >aginast making peasants landowners on the grounds that it >de-proletarianizes them, and thus raises labor costs -- I don't buy >it. Here there is such a surplus of people of dubious utility to global >ca

Re: Tom Kruse on de Soto

Hear hear!!! to everything Tom says. I've had much the same experiences on microcredit in Zimbabwe (it occupies a chapter in my 1998 book Uneven Zimbabwe, but the attached magazine article picks up some of my line of argument). Actually, the broader political project Tom describes as an alter