Links on Friday - 10
April 6th, 2007 | Published in Africa, Business and Entrepreneurship, Democracy, Governance, Links, Nigeria, elections
“Nowhere in the world can a sitting government be getting ready for election and we have the kind of crisis in the power sector. They (PDP) are taking for granted that they will win every position they contest. So, the present situation shows how much contempt these fellows have for the Nigerian people…I can’t imagine in a normal democracy where people are expecting that their votes will count, that a government so close to the election will allow that. What it means is that these people have total disregard for the Nigerian people. They expect that they will rig the elections, so the Nigerian people don’t matter”- Prof Pat Utomi.
This is the opener to Is’haq Modibbo Kawu’s article on AllAfrica - Nigeria: Not Sabotage But Incompetence - President Obasanjo (http://allafrica.com/stories/200704050287.html)
“Some of the major misconceptions about microfinance — small loans of under $100 that enable Third World residents to become entrepreneurs — can be summed up by what happened roughly a decade ago, when the pioneering Grameen Bank decided to help female villagers in Bangladesh enter the mobile phone business.”
Excerpt from Knowledge at Wharton: ‘Microfinance 2.0′: New Tools, New Goals and New Ways to Lift People out of Poverty
