Re: poly: economics of morality

At 08:26 AM 2/8/98 EST, you wrote:
Greg Burch writes:
>> Better to focus on what is blocking rights adaption and seek to reduce
>> frictions there.
>
>Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Bank and its associated enterprises
>(http://www.grameen.com/gfly.htm) are perhaps the perfect example of this.
>Yunus makes so-called "microloans" (on the order of $50-$100) to would-be
>entrepreneurs in the third world (especially in the Indian subcontinent).

My favorite charity for the last decade has been
<a href="http://www.vita.org/trickle">TrickleUp</a>,
which makes similar loans.

Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 FAX: 510-643-8614
Received on Wed Feb 11 18:57:34 1998