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Initiative And Referendum: A Maine Odyssey, Charles A. Scontras
Initiative And Referendum: A Maine Odyssey, Charles A. Scontras
Bureau of Labor Education
Maine is no stranger to the nation’s battles involving the development of the tools of direct democracy and how to use them. Since the citizen initiative and referendum were passed in late 1908, Mainers have used “the power of the people” to vote directly on many laws, bypassing the Legislature. Now, after more than 100 years in use, the initiative process may be facing a test: Gov. Paul LePage is preparing blueprints to use the initiative in an attempt to change the state’s welfare system and reduce the income tax — victories denied to him in the Legislature. It’s a …
Women In Microfinance And Its Social Effects On The Community: A Case Study In Hue, Vietnam, Madison Spigel
Women In Microfinance And Its Social Effects On The Community: A Case Study In Hue, Vietnam, Madison Spigel
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Microfinance, a form of micro lending with no collateral, has been used as a way to finance the poor since the foundation of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh by Muhammad Yunus in 1983. Since the Doi Moi period, the Vietnamese government has showed great interest in microfinance and has made this loan system available to both its rural and urban citizens through organizations like the Women‟s Union. Through detailed surveys and semi-structured in depth interviews of both women in the Union as well as related parties in Hue, I was able to study how microfinance is used by these women …