BYU Ballard Center Names First Peery Fellow
August 18, 2010
August 18, 2010
PROVO, Utah, Aug. 18 -- Brigham Young University issued the following news release:
While conducting impact analyses with microcredit borrowers in East Africa, Brigham Young University business alumnus Jason Fairbourne realized there was a problem. The people he met didn't have the resources to become self-reliant. Microcredit loans, which were touted as an answer to poverty, helped but weren't always effectively used. So Fairbourne developed a new concept -- one he call . . .
While conducting impact analyses with microcredit borrowers in East Africa, Brigham Young University business alumnus Jason Fairbourne realized there was a problem. The people he met didn't have the resources to become self-reliant. Microcredit loans, which were touted as an answer to poverty, helped but weren't always effectively used. So Fairbourne developed a new concept -- one he call . . .