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• Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World PovertyMuhammad Yunus

  

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  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)
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  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)
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  The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story

  by Asif Dowla

  Nobel Prize-winning microcredit institution Grameen Bank has financially empowered the poorest families in more than a hundred countries across the globe for over three decades through savings and loans. Recently, Grameen has undergone a complete overhaul of its system, creating "Grameen II" and seeking to make its loan programs more effective. The Poor Always Pay Back not only uncovers how a major... (more)
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  Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Mohammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank - First Edition

  by Mohammad Yunus, Alan Jolis, Muhammad Yunus

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  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.
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  The Economics of Microfinance

  by Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion

  The microfinance revolution, begun with independent initiatives in Latin America and South Asia starting in the 1970s, has so far allowed 65 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance. This comprehensive survey of microfinance seeks to bridge the gap in the existing literature on microfinance between academic economists and practitioners. Both... (more)
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  Housing Microfinance: A Guide to Practice

  This is the first book to give a comprehensive overview of the new field of housing microfinance practice worldwide. The expert contributors provide guidance to practitioners and policymakers on what works best, and look at the applicability of developing-world experience for housing microfinance in the United States. The book takes experience from the separate fields of housing policy and microfinance and... (more)
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  The Commercialization of Microfinance: Balancing Business and Development

  * Addresses key issues related to bringing microfinance into the commercial realm * Written by prominent practitioners and scholars from a variety of organizations While many microfinance organizations started as NGOs, there is now a growing movement for them to transform into regulated, for-profit entities. Concurrently, commercial banks, credit unions, and specialized investors are also entering the market. ... (more)
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  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)
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  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)
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  Whats Wrong with Microfinance?

  Microfinance has been a long-lived development fashion. It has been around since the 1980s, and in 2005 it enjoyed the accolade of a UN international year. The reasons for this success are obvious. It reaches millions of poor people, particularly women, and it can be profitable both for some of its customers and also for the institutions which finance it. There are, however, some important problems, discussed... (more)
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  One Hen - How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

  by Katie Smith Milway

  Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many. After his father died, Kojo had to quit school to help his mother collect firewood to sell at the market. When his mother receives a loan from some village families, she gives a little money to her son. With this tiny loan, Kojo buys a hen. A year later, Kojo has built... (more)
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  MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid

  Poverty remains one of the most intractable problems in the developing world. Microfranchising offers great promise in alleviating poverty by aiding in the foundation of locally owned businesses. Microfranchising is defined as small businesses whose start-up costs are minimal and whose concepts and operations are easily replicated. It involves the systematizing of microenterprises to create and replicate turnkey... (more)
• Give Us CreditAlex Counts

  

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  Give Us Credit

  by Alex Counts

  When Muhammad Yunus returned to his native Bangladesh 25 years ago with an American doctorate in economics, he set out to try and combat the entrenched poverty there. By 1995, his Grameen Bank had made loans totaling $500 million to two million borrowers, mostly women. In spite of the fact that these borrowers were the poorest of the poor, Grameen has had a near-perfect repayment rate.
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  More Pathways Out of Poverty

  More Pathways Out of Poverty explores new practices in microfinance, some of them revolutionary, and draws on the success of the industry to illustrate the challenges involved in lifting clients out of poverty. Taken together, the contributions from leading microfinance leaders and institutions serve as a map for ensuring that microcredit contributes powerfully to cutting absolute poverty in half by... (more)