Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: microcredit

• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Creating a World without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives

  by Muhammad Yunus

  The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

  by Muhammad Yunus

  In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a few, Grameen Bank now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are nearly 100... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Banker to the poor : the autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank

  by Muhammad Yunus

  This book is an autobiographical account of the founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus. This work is a fundamental rethinking of the economic relationship between the rich and the poor, as well as their rights and obligations.
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Microfinance Investment Funds: Leveraging Private Capital for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

  Microfinance investment funds are a recent development that will grow in importance. These funds expand the range of opportunities for financing microfinance institutions, enabling them to offer greater outreach and diversity of products for microentrepreneurs and small businesses. Microfinance now spans the range of finance, from the most simple enterprise to the complexity of capital markets. KfW actively... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Microcredit and Development Policy

  by Douglas R. Snow

  Contents: Introduction: Microcredit as a Policy Tool; Microcredit: A Grassroots Policy for International Development; Development Policy and the Role of Microcredit; Delivering Microfinance in Developing Countries: Controversies and Policy Perspectives; Microcredit: An Institutional Development Opportunity; Microcredit and Rural Finance; The Incorporated Township as the Primary Recipient of Developmental Credit: A... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Microfinance: Conversations with the Experts

  The author documents discussions with microfinance experts on the following topics: vision setting, institution building, performance monitoring, staff and client development, the role of donors, governance and regulation, and supervision. The discussion reflects the range of consensus and debate that exists within the microfinance field today, with experts from a cross- section of practitioners and institutions... (more)