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...important for the industry to continue to innovate and evolve. One of the most significant changes has been the move from group to individual lending - an area that Women's World Banking, an international network of microfinance institutions and banks, has helped pioneer. Individual lending is a way to allow micro businesses to start to grow, providing larger, cash-flow based loans than the group might be comfortable counter-guaranteeing. Group lending, where large groups of borrowers are jointly responsible for making sure loans are repaid, is an excellent introduction to finance for micro-entrepreneurs, but the businesses tend...
...Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, said that thanks to the taxes paid by the biotechnology firms, Cambridge is able to provide extensive programs for its low-income residents while maintaining relatively low property taxes. In September, biotech lab developer Alexandria Real Estate, Inc. applied for a zoning change that would allow it to construct buildings taller than those currently allowed under East Cambridge zoning rules. Some residents said they believed the meeting was called to facilitate Alexandria’s plans for development. But City Manager Robert W. Healey denied that the meeting had anything to do with zoning regulations, stating...
...student without an invitation to the inauguration had petitioned the Ad Board last week and was denied.” Shah said he is not asking the administration to make exceptions for students particularly for the Obama inauguration. He said he hopes it will become University policy to allow students to make up exams that fall on Inauguration Day. “It is our position that every inauguration should be a day during which students are allowed to exercise their civic duty,” he said. Once the College’s calendar changes next year, final exams...
...loosening of E.U. restrictions on direct state aid to companies, restrictions established to encourage more-competitive markets in Europe. "We can't have the Americans unlocking $25 billion in loans for their three manufacturers while we would be caught up in a state-assistance regime that does not allow us to help our European automakers," Sarkozy said...
...primarily by Pakistanis, with the backing of noted terrorist organizations acting within Pakistani territory. This is a revelation that will surprise few Indians and provide fresh political capital to others. Already, the Shiv Sena, a Hindu nationalist group based in Mumbai, has openly declared that it won't allow Pakistani artists to perform in the city. Even ordinary civilians are turning hawkish. "We need to tell them that enough is enough," says Sheikh Noor Ahmed, who owns a hotel close to the bombed-out Taj Mahal here in South Mumbai. "Gandhi's days are gone. Gone are the times when...