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Microfinance could wind up being the new subprime

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Microfinance has been celebrated as a way to get money into the hands of poor people, and most famously women, so they can jump start small businesses. These tiny loans with minimal requirements to borrow have become a global phenomenon.

The 2005 United Nations “year of microcredit” was followed in 2006 by a Nobel Peace Price to the...

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Huge solar storms may be key to life on Earth

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageImage from NASA of an outburst from the Sun, these were more common when our star was younger. They may have both lead to a warmer Earth as well as the building blocks for life itself.NASA

The latest results from NASA’s Kepler satellite may have finally solved the mystery of how the conditions for life were created on our younger Earth - and...

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  1. How diversity and change has made the Australian family stronger than ever
  2. How we live now: Australian families at a glance
  3. Fighting income inequality: the role business can play
  4. 'Mummy, where does steak come from?' How Australian families talk about meat
  5. Will Zika virus cast a shadow over the Rio Olympics?
  6. How our modular brain pieces the world together
  7. What is the Coalition’s real agenda for Australian schools?
  8. A guide to using drones to study wildlife: first, do no harm
  9. The Liberals may have miscalculated Turnbull's electoral appeal
  10. Slight movement to Labor as Shorten's ratings improve
  11. Frozen out: why the GP rebate freeze should matter to you.
  12. Health Check: how much sugar is it OK to eat?
  13. Explainer: what is the Office for Learning and Teaching – and why does it matter?
  14. Election 2016: do we need to re-establish a department of climate change?
  15. Politicians trashing immigrants and refugees are the real danger to social cohesion
  16. Myer and eBay's virtual reality shopping turns looking into seeing
  17. Hide your location on Twitter? We can still find you and that's not a bad thing in an emergency
  18. Why has climate change disappeared from the Australian election radar?
  19. Coastal law shift from property rights to climate adaptation is a landmark reform
  20. Angry Birds at the cinema: the uses and abuses of mobile phones
  21. Election podcast: Sam Dastyari on the 'Bill Bus'
  22. Architecture is a performed art – and the Eames House is a pretty good show
  23. Move over suburbia, Green Square offers new norm for urban living
  24. The off-topic Conversation #94
  25. Newspoll shows Labor ahead, Shorten and Turnbull level pegging in net satisfaction
  26. Guide to the classics: The Histories, by Herodotus
  27. We need to better detect depression but that shouldn't mean more medication
  28. Delay in getting driving licences opens door to more sustainable travel
  29. Eat locals: swapping sheep and cows for kangaroos and camels could help our environment
  30. The science issues this election are as old as the Australian media
  31. Murray Goulburn and Fonterra are playing chicken with dairy farmers
  32. Australia needs a better independent fiscal agency
  33. Performance pay for teachers will create a culture of fear and isolation
  34. Negatively Geared – Against Younger Australians
  35. Checking out in style
  36. With the rise of apartment living, what's a nation of pet owners to do?
  37. Coalition clings to small lead in latest Ipsos poll
  38. Banking excuses wearing a bit thin
  39. Labor seizes on Treasury and Finance secretaries' warning about revenue
  40. Infographic: PEFO 2016 at a glance
  41. Questioning the assumptions underlying the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook
  42. Coalition and Labor moving on worker exploitation, but potential loopholes remain
  43. Review: Jane Austen's women have been done a disservice
  44. Urban density matters – but what does it mean?
  45. Want to know if the Paris climate deal is working? University divestment is the litmus test
  46. PolicyCheck: the Greens' Harm Reduction Innovation Fund drug policy
  47. AFP commissioner Colvin defends timing of raids on Labor
  48. Why I struggle with the idea of Struggle Street filming in my suburb
  49. Confused about the Medicare rebate freeze? Here's what you need to know
  50. The Conversation's Community Council

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