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01/27/2005:

"Loans seen as no solution for Haiti's poorest"

"The last thing you want to do is make a poor person even poorer by giving them a loan they can't pay back," said Lauren Mitten, of Development Alternatives Inc., a private contractor that runs a microfinance project in Haiti for the US Agency for International Development, or USAID. "There are lots of microfinance institutions trying to reach the same people with the same products. But no one is reaching the extreme poor."

Full Article : boston.com