Comments on: Fundamentals: The Problem of Debt http://registan.net/index.php/2008/06/05/fundamentals-the-problem-of-debt/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://registan.net/index.php/2008/06/05/fundamentals-the-problem-of-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-377261 Anonymous Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:49:51 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/06/05/fundamentals-the-problem-of-debt/#comment-377261 For godssake, son, get yourself out of that grad school or whatever it is you're doing in the midwest and get yourself over to Afghanistan and help out. Your puerile carping and hairsplitting will seem much less clever to you after you've actually put your shoulder to the cart for a bit. For godssake, son, get yourself out of that grad school or whatever it is you’re doing in the midwest and get yourself over to Afghanistan and help out.

Your puerile carping and hairsplitting will seem much less clever to you after you’ve actually put your shoulder to the cart for a bit.

]]> By: Rabia http://registan.net/index.php/2008/06/05/fundamentals-the-problem-of-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-377247 Rabia Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:57:13 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/06/05/fundamentals-the-problem-of-debt/#comment-377247 Mines in Balochistan employ a lot of Hazara children from Afghanistan. The family is paid a relatively large sum which it uses to pay off debt in exchange for sending their sons to work in the mines until their lungs give out (<a href="http://www.newsline.com.pk/newsApr2006/exposeapr.htm" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> the article I read about it a while ago). Mines in Balochistan employ a lot of Hazara children from Afghanistan. The family is paid a relatively large sum which it uses to pay off debt in exchange for sending their sons to work in the mines until their lungs give out (Here’s the article I read about it a while ago).

]]> By: Brendan Whitty http://registan.net/index.php/2008/06/05/fundamentals-the-problem-of-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-377246 Brendan Whitty Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:32:19 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/06/05/fundamentals-the-problem-of-debt/#comment-377246 There has been a fair amount of work done on the role of debt and credit mechanisms as part of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit's livelihoods department: see in particular Klijn and Pain's 2007 paper "Finding the money" on informal credit systems (https://www30.a2hosting.com/~areuorg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=35). There has been a fair amount of work done on the role of debt and credit mechanisms as part of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit’s livelihoods department: see in particular Klijn and Pain’s 2007 paper “Finding the money” on informal credit systems (https://www30.a2hosting.com/~areuorg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=35).

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