Mexico Lindo y Querido

May 21, 2013

I went to Mexico last week with the double purpose of seeing how FINCA Mexico is doing and also to give a talk to the microfinance association Prodesarrollo on the subject of over indebtedness. The extent to which our clients may have borrowed too much from too many providers is at the top of the [...]

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As Time Goes By (On Winged Heels of Mercury)

May 14, 2013

What does it say about someone that he hasn’t made time for Social Media in almost two weeks? Get with it, ‘mon! Times be passin’ you by! I’m doing the Tiger Grandpaw thing out here in the San Francisco Bay (update to come), which has provided a powerful reminder of Temps Perdu when, as a [...]

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University of Roehampton Speech: Rupert Scofield ‘Make a Difference’

May 8, 2013

In March 2013, the University of Roehampton in London recognized the achievements of agricultural economist Rupert Scofield for his work serving low-income women and men as President and CEO of FINCA International. The University presented Rupert with an honorary degree as a Doctor of Laws. Watch the full speech (8mins long): full transcript: Thank you Professor Harris [...]

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How Richard Nixon Got Me Into Microfinance – The Untold Story

May 1, 2013

With the statute of limitations finally having expired, now the full story can be told.

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The Glory of Spring

April 28, 2013

I was traveling the entire month of April so missed the Cherry Blossoms and Tulips back in Washington, but not, fortunately, the azaleas. Europe was still in its long winter at the beginning of the month, but by the end it was sunny and delightful. The ‘weather’ at work and my personal life seems to [...]

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Imagine

April 24, 2013

Hangin’ with my Homies at the Eurasia Regional in Instanbul.   Sometimes it’s in the after hours that the most powerful insights come.   Like tonight, talking to two of my CEOs about what impact FINCA is having in the countries where we work.    Usually we talk about how our work helps the clients with their businesses, [...]

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We Got The Powah!

April 24, 2013
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An Inspiring Article in The Independent

April 13, 2013

Read the story of Berna, one of our clients in Uganda.

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Behind the Data

April 4, 2013

When you manage a large, global organization, the temptation is to reduce the people you work with and the clients your serve to a stream of colorless statistics. Everything changes when you go to the field and the numbers turn into real people, with real lives. I had the opportunity to visit one of our [...]

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The Long Winter

March 31, 2013

I must have shortchanged the Southern Hemisphere this season and my punishment has been this endless winter, relentless skies of gray, day after day, and those of us dwelling beneath them exchanging hardy microbes hacked from rubicund throats ejecting their lethal cargo into hermetically sealed conference rooms or metal tubes with jet engines afixed, blasting [...]

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