HuffingtonPost: The Crime of Alleviating Poverty – A Local Community Currency Battles the Central Bank of Kenya
Via the HuffingtonPost:
Complementary currencies can help eradicate poverty.
Proving that may be difficult in complex economies, due to the high number of factors influencing outcomes. But in an African slum with little of the national currency available, supplying residents with an alternative currency has a positive effect that is obvious, immediate and incontrovertible.