Index for Volume 8, Issue 3 / October-December 1996
Microfinance: a powerfultool for social transformation
PERSPECTIVE --
In the search for practical measures to alleviate poverty and its debilitating impact on humanity
and the planet, the microfinance movement offers a set of powerful tools in the service of
social and economic development.
In Honduras, a rural hospital suffers from success
PALACIOS, Honduras -- Almost anywhere in the world, the ecnomics of running small a rural hospital of any sophistication requires a certain critical mass of paying patients -- and such a critical mass is rarely to be found in rural areas.
From the coral reef, lessons on managing scarcity
REVIEW -- The Eco Principle: Ecology and Economics in symbiosis
by Arthur Lyon Dahl. Although coral reefs exist in tropical waters that are low in nutrients and plankton, that basic food of the sea, they support tremendous density and diversity of life. In this fact, says marine biologists Arthur Lyon Dahl, is a lesson of critical importance to humanity's long-term survival.
Meeting in Rome, nations seek to build on the new international framework set by other recent
UN conferences. the decision-making process, however, left some in the cold.
LONDON -- Driving back home to Hounslow after a recent 20 minute standup performance at the Bearcat Comedy Club here, Omid Djalili was rather hard on himself.