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Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems | David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
[Update: Matt Flannery, CEO and Co-Founder of Kiva, replied to this post as a guest blogger. Kiva has also changed its site, and I have blogged more.]
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#microfinance blog post: Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems http://bit.ly/1yAS6n
article on how kiva markets and distributes micro-loans, with an eye towards encouraging increased transparency: http://tinyurl.com/yeslyye
RT @kanter: article on how @kiva markets and distributes micro-loans, with an eye towards increased transparency http://bit.ly/qTxZP
"I love @kiva this is a thought provoking blog post": 'Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems' http://is.gd/42IXg
Interessanter Artikel über Kiva: http://bit.ly/Cq6TC (auch den Links folgen).
"Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems" http://is.gd/5E2zt (quite interesting)
A long but MUST read post from @davidroodman about Kiva and the subtle misleading of donors in NPOs http://bit.ly/aphUL
Very interesting article about @Kiva and common misunderstandings of their model http://bit.ly/aphUL
'Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems' a thought-provoking analysis of person-to-person giving models http://ow.ly/t3aP
"what if honesty reduces funding?" Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems | David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog http://ow.ly/tq1M
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Discovered David Roodman's very balanced piece http://t.co/C7k1wd0d versus Timothy Ogden's not quite http://t.co/6LLcPrNN on the same topic.
Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems | David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog http://t.co/IfMjF83o via @davidroodman
@ChristineUsher Yeah I've done a lot of lending through Kiva too. Have you read things like http://t.co/koMJkSKa? what do you think?
The p2p micro-finance Pandora's Box http://t.co/TdPgFboI <-- NOTE: most critics continue to be active #kiva lenders
@ChrisUnitt There is an interesting, and challenging, critique of Kiva here http://t.co/RL3rSCUB @pigsonthewing @benjiw
@ChrisUnitt There is an interesting, and challenging, critique of Kiva here http://t.co/RL3rSCUB @pigsonthewing @benjiw
@flexibeast don't know much either - just read a few things like this http://t.co/E9djpTtk
@danmayer Kiva isn't actually that direct. You give loans to a microlender, not the person in need of the loan
@julius01 bissl zu unkritisch für meinen geschmack http://t.co/cCJm9gqU http://t.co/rOWjqS6l