Small is beautiful. Big is necessary.
by Matt Styslinger (EB)

Poverty is often defined in purely economic terms, and almost always in terms of what poor people lack. But poverty is complex and woven into a larger social fabric. Small can be beautiful and small enterprise is essential for the world’s poorest people, particularly women, to earn a living. But BRAC believes big is necessary, and that the benefits of each small success can be amplified by a holistic, coordinated effort to connect them to a functioning, strengthening society.

It reminds me of the comments responding to this post a the Spearhead on micro-finance. Is the author a feminist? And who is going to do the coordinating? The government or some agency taking the place of the government? (How much of micro-finance should be the responsibility of the government?) I suppose the answer, in part, depends on the scale of the polity.