[lbo-talk] Microfinance Query

[Dennis Perrin]

I was flipping thru a recent issue of The Economist which focused on how the 
world's poor can be pulled out of their miserable state via "free 
enterprise," and the term thrown around most was "microfinance." Could any 
of you economic comrades please lay out for me what exactly microfinance 
really means? And is there a pseudo-evangelical tone to all this global 
captial raving?

Dennis