KNOWLEDGE -- May 28 -- Nearly
everyone told Matt and Jessica Flannery that their idea -- a website
where people could make micro loans to individual borrowers in the
developing world -- wouldn't work. Today, Kiva.org is one of the hottest and hippest on
the web. Kiva's 270,000
lenders have assisted about 40,000
borrowers in 40 countries and provided a total of about $27m in
funding. Kiva, founded in 2005, has been so successful that it has already
spawned imitators: eBay last year launched a lending site called
MicroPlace. FULL ARTICLE @ KNOWLEDGE
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