Dorotea, a thirty-something one-woman ceramics entrepreneur based in the remote forests of Peru, knows all about the global financial crisis. She might not be familiar with the intricacies of Lehman Brothers’ demise in 2008, nor with the succeeding slew of regulations intended to fix a broken banking system. But she knows she is lucky. If she were trying today to get the loan of 1,200 sol for a new kiln that she secured a few years ago, she would be disappointed.
三十多歲的多洛蒂(Dorotea)女士是一家位於祕魯偏遠林區的陶瓷廠的老闆,她對全球金融危機可謂瞭然於胸。她或許不太清楚2008年雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)破產時間錯綜複雜的內幕,也不熟悉隨之而來、旨在修補破產銀行系統的一系列監管規定。不過,她知道自己十分幸運。如果換成是今天,她想獲得1200索爾的貸款、啓動幾年前買下的一個新窯區,結果可能會讓人失望。