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Hello !I am posting here a series of slides that together present a holistic, sustainable, rapidly replicatable model for micro economic development. First, I will post the slides, then I will let member Q/A help me explain them and field questions. This is a Systems Model.The Holistic model shows the total integrated system. Each of the Blocks can be devolved into its constitutent parts. This is the prime system. Key blocks are sub systems. Every day I will post parts of the…See More

I am participating in an ongoing online conference sponsored by SEEP on Social Investment. It is very, very frustrating since people think that SRI's are those who invest in social projects ... like the song says, "...it ain't necessarily so."Most so called, SRI's are really investors in Microfinance Institutions, many of whom charge in excess of 100% EFI (effective interest rate) and not the Grameen Bank, or BRAC models for certain. Such investments suck funds away from SME, or SGB's causing a…See More