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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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How diversity and change has made the Australian family stronger than ever

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageBlended, rainbow, single or two-parents are just some of the ways to make a modern family.Shutterstock

Nostalgia is a powerful force in how we think about family. There is a persistent myth that family structures were better in the past; that the “golden age” of marriage is over, and the family is in decline. Historical and sociological...

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  1. How we live now: Australian families at a glance
  2. Fighting income inequality: the role business can play
  3. 'Mummy, where does steak come from?' How Australian families talk about meat
  4. Will Zika virus cast a shadow over the Rio Olympics?
  5. How our modular brain pieces the world together
  6. What is the Coalition’s real agenda for Australian schools?
  7. A guide to using drones to study wildlife: first, do no harm
  8. The Liberals may have miscalculated Turnbull's electoral appeal
  9. Slight movement to Labor as Shorten's ratings improve
  10. Frozen out: why the GP rebate freeze should matter to you.
  11. Health Check: how much sugar is it OK to eat?
  12. Explainer: what is the Office for Learning and Teaching – and why does it matter?
  13. Election 2016: do we need to re-establish a department of climate change?
  14. Politicians trashing immigrants and refugees are the real danger to social cohesion
  15. Myer and eBay's virtual reality shopping turns looking into seeing
  16. Hide your location on Twitter? We can still find you and that's not a bad thing in an emergency
  17. Why has climate change disappeared from the Australian election radar?
  18. Coastal law shift from property rights to climate adaptation is a landmark reform
  19. Angry Birds at the cinema: the uses and abuses of mobile phones
  20. Election podcast: Sam Dastyari on the 'Bill Bus'
  21. Architecture is a performed art – and the Eames House is a pretty good show
  22. Move over suburbia, Green Square offers new norm for urban living
  23. The off-topic Conversation #94
  24. Newspoll shows Labor ahead, Shorten and Turnbull level pegging in net satisfaction
  25. Guide to the classics: The Histories, by Herodotus
  26. We need to better detect depression but that shouldn't mean more medication
  27. Delay in getting driving licences opens door to more sustainable travel
  28. Eat locals: swapping sheep and cows for kangaroos and camels could help our environment
  29. The science issues this election are as old as the Australian media
  30. Murray Goulburn and Fonterra are playing chicken with dairy farmers
  31. Australia needs a better independent fiscal agency
  32. Performance pay for teachers will create a culture of fear and isolation
  33. Negatively Geared – Against Younger Australians
  34. Checking out in style
  35. With the rise of apartment living, what's a nation of pet owners to do?
  36. Coalition clings to small lead in latest Ipsos poll
  37. Banking excuses wearing a bit thin
  38. Labor seizes on Treasury and Finance secretaries' warning about revenue
  39. Infographic: PEFO 2016 at a glance
  40. Questioning the assumptions underlying the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook
  41. Coalition and Labor moving on worker exploitation, but potential loopholes remain
  42. Review: Jane Austen's women have been done a disservice
  43. Urban density matters – but what does it mean?
  44. Want to know if the Paris climate deal is working? University divestment is the litmus test
  45. PolicyCheck: the Greens' Harm Reduction Innovation Fund drug policy
  46. AFP commissioner Colvin defends timing of raids on Labor
  47. Why I struggle with the idea of Struggle Street filming in my suburb
  48. Confused about the Medicare rebate freeze? Here's what you need to know
  49. The Conversation's Community Council
  50. Backpacker tax: if it were never broke, why try to fix it?

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