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A billion bootstraps : microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty / by Smith, Philip B.(Philip Bartlett)(CARDINAL)436762; Thurman, Eric.(CARDINAL)552251;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.
Subjects: Microfinance.; Loans, Personal.; Poverty.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Why Doesn't Microfinance Work? : The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism. by Bateman, Milford.(CARDINAL)642916;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The blue sweater : bridging the gap between rich and poor in an interconnected world / by Novogratz, Jacqueline.(CARDINAL)775710;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and index.Innocent abroad -- A bird on the outside, a tiger within -- Context matters -- Basket economics and political realities -- The blue bakery -- Dancing in the dark -- Traveling without a road map -- A new learning curve -- Blue paint on the road -- Retribution and resurrection -- The cost of silence -- Institutions matter -- The education of a patient capitalist -- Building brick by brick -- Taking it to scale -- The world we dream, the future we create together.
Subjects: Charities.; Economic assistance.; Microfinance.; Poverty.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Confessions of a microfinance heretic : how microlending lost its way and betrayed the poor / by Sinclair, Hugh.(CARDINAL)400092;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Thou shalt not criticize microfinance -- Baptism in Mexico -- Bob Dylan and I in Mozambique -- Another Mozambican civil war -- The "developed" world -- Something not quite right in Nigeria -- Something not quite right in Holland -- In front of the judge -- Rustling Dutch feathers -- Blowing the whistle from Mongolia -- Enter the New York Times -- Collapse, suicide, and Muhammad Yunus -- The good, the bad, and the poor -- Appendix: Microfinance economics.Argues that microfinance is an industry focused on maximizing profits and plagued by predatory lending practices, scandals, cover-ups and corruption, and offers solutions for the future.
Subjects: Finance; Microfinance.; Poor.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The International Bank of Bob : connecting our worlds one $25 Kiva loan at a time / by Harris, Bob,1963-(CARDINAL)657291;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-391) and index.The French Riviera, Dubai, and the world -- Singapore, Bali, and Beijing -- Chicago, Fiji, and Broadway -- The mission -- The sacred valley of the Incas -- Welcome to Sarajevo -- The great rift valley and Nairobi -- Rwanda -- Dar es Salaam, Andhra Pradesh, and a walk to the sea -- Magellan's cross, Hanoi, and Cambodia -- Kathmandu -- India -- Beirut -- Home.Hired to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: he would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like theirs better. Bob found his way to Kiva.org, the leading portal through which individuals make microloans all over the world: for as little as $25-50, businesses are financed and people are uplifted. Astonishingly, the repayment rate was nearly 99%, so he re-loaned the money to others over and over again. After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, and in this book he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met, while illuminating day-to-day life--political and emotional--in a world that Americans never see.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Harris, Bob, 1963-; Microfinance.; Small business;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A fistful of rice : my unexpected quest to end poverty through profitability / by Akula, Vikram.(CARDINAL)497584;
"Am I not poor, too?" -- Putting the last first -- The story of my experiments with Grameen -- Rangoli powder and handfuls of seeds -- The McDonald's of microfinance -- Goat economics -- Google territory.The founder of a microfinance firm explains how he leveraged small loans to impoverished individuals into a business that not only turned a profit, but also helped the world's poor.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Akula, Vikram.; Poverty; Microfinance;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty / by Yunus, Muhammad,1940-(CARDINAL)347796; Jolis, Alan.(CARDINAL)767094;
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Subjects: Autobiographies.; Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-; Grameen Bank; Economists; Rural poor; Microfinance;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty / by Yunus, Muhammad,1940-(CARDINAL)347796; Jolis, Alan.(CARDINAL)767094;
Number 20 Boxirhat Road, Chittagong -- A Bengali in America -- Back in Chittagong -- The stool makers of Jobra Village -- A pilot project is born -- Expanding beyond Jobra into Tangail -- A bank for the poor is born -- Growth and challenges for the Bank for the Poor, 1984-1990 -- Applications in other poor countries -- Applications in the United States and other wealthy countries -- Grameen in the nineties -- Beyond micro-credit : a new world of Grameen Enterprises -- Grameen Bank II -- The future.1090L
Subjects: Biographies.; Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-; Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-; Grameen Bank; Grameen Bank; Banks and banking; Economists; Microfinance; Rural poor; Économistes; Microfinance; Pauvres en milieu rural;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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We are not able to live in the sky : the seductive promise of microfinance / by Kardas-Nelson, Mara,author.(CARDINAL)895855;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The rise. Twenty-seven dollars to forty-two women ; An epiphany ; Copycats ; Cookie cutter ; The poorest of the poor ; Bees ; New goals ; Nope -- Trouble the water. So much money ; Like a drug ; We rode the fad for as long as we could ; An opportunity ; In the sky ; It's not microfinance. It's financial inclusion."A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promise and peril of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in microfinance and women borrowers in Sierra Leone"--
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Biographies.; Microfinance; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Twenty-two cents : Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank / by Yoo, Paula,author.(CARDINAL)354942; Akib, Jamel,illustrator.(CARDINAL)664783;
Includes bibliographical references."A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who from a young age was determined to make difference in the world and eventually revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending. Includes an afterword and author's sources"--1010LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-; Grameen Bank; Bankers; Economists; Microfinance;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 14
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