{"id":503,"date":"2009-01-13T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2009-01-13T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:49:40","slug":"changing-china-one-loan-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/changing-china-one-loan-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing China one loan at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dqhZoCp0UCg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dqhZoCp0UCg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs financial institutions melt down, you&#8217;ve probably heard a thing or two about credit&#8211;who gets it, from whom, and what it means for the global economy. There are very few bright spots in today&#8217;s economic environment, but the good news is that in many parts of the world, loans of just a few hundred dollars still have the capacity to change people&#8217;s lives. Join Casey Wilson, nonprofit startup entrepreneur, to talk about her work with Wokai, the first foreign-funded microfinance organization in China. Casey will share her experiences building an organization that gives the poorest of China&#8217;s poor the financing to build businesses that lift them from poverty.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As financial institutions melt down, you&#8217;ve probably heard a thing or two about credit&#8211;who gets it, from whom, and what it means for the global economy. There are very few bright spots in today&#8217;s economic environment, but the good news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/changing-china-one-loan-at-a-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[363,389],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}