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Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Bob

Check out this trippy data visualization Kiva did of more than 5 years and $200 million in microlending:

Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva Microfunds on Vimeo.

Posted in Kiva and Microfinance, The 1st Int'l Bank of Bob | Tagged 1st Intl Bank of Bob, Bank of Bob, kiva, microlending, microloans, video

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