The shift follows the deployment of 1,400 paramilitary-trained field officers
Which in turn follows Kenya taking on another big chunk of sovereign debt despite (or maybe because of) having trouble paying off its existing debt. Which has not exactly been universally popular with voters.
@CatradoraSomething I mean no one else does that, so I don't see why you expect they would.
Catholics and Protestants and Westboro Baptists and Eastern Orthodox and Mormons aren't all teamed up together just because they're all basically Christian. Neither are the Sunnis and Shiites just because they're Muslim.
Any country that has a system that allows more than 2 political parties has a whole spectrum of them, both in terms of the left to right axis and the authoritarian to libertarian axis.
Nevermind, just saw this comment. Feel embarrassed I fell for this troll now.
Microfinance promised to help lift millions of people from poverty in the Global South. It’s a way for low-income individuals to access credit — something they couldn’t receive from traditional financial institutions, like banks.
It came to Cambodia in the 1990s as a poverty-alleviation strategy after decades of civil war. At first, microfinance was run by nongovernmental organizations with a number of checks and balances on the size of loans, the number of loans given and interest rates, according to Nithya Natarajan, a lecturer at King’s College London.
But in the early and mid-2000s, commercial banks took over microfinance and wanted to make more profit.
“Those checks and balances were largely eroded because the commercial push meant that the emphasis was more on expanding the market, trying to reach new consumers all the time. So, it went to more poor and more precarious households,” she said.
So it's a good from Karpowership's parent company's POV but if its customers could afford their own power plants that would be a better solution for them.
@Rapidcreek I suppose you probably blame the citizens of North Korea for "harbouring" Kim Jong Un, too. But that's just not how life actually works.
Collective punishment of civillians is always a war crime, but blaming people with no access to free and fair elections in order to justify it is particularly cynical, especially when nearly half of them are still children.