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Saturday, July 5, 2008

The Girl Effect

Check this out. After studying developing economies for a little bit, this video really does make a lot of sense. Infrastructure in developing (read: poor) countries lends itself to limited education opportunities for women, and individuals as a whole. After reading and understanding as much of the statistics as I could lay my hands on, that's the conclusion that I came to, and I certainly wouldn't think that it's the wrong one. Increasingly, the availability of small loans to individuals in the developing world is becoming available to those with the ability to lend. And this isn't bad in a financial sense. Why does China have such a large return on investment? Because they're starting from so low in the spectrum and advancing to such a relatively enormous level that the change (the margin - economics is a science of margins) is enormous. These underdeveloped countries have the opportunity to provide good, reliable and safe investments to Americans with the desire to invest their money in something good and worthwhile. Watch the video, take something from it, and post in the comments your thoughts.



PS: yeah, the video is a pretty good example of good graphic design too, but that should be a sidenote in your head.

2 comments:

alm said...

What about something like this?

David Zwerdling said...

that's the idea