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Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank 4 reviews
Muhammad Yunus
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Excellent and interesting book
Muhammad Yunus describes in this book how the idea developed about starting a bank for the poor. The writing style of Yunus makes the book very easy to read; almost like a good novel. Because this book doesn't focusses on just micro-credit (because it's an autobiography) I think it's an excellent introduction to the topic of micro-credit and finding sollutions for the poor. But for more in-dept ...
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One Hen - How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference5 reviews
Katie Smith Milway
Kids Can Press, Ltd., 2008
great introduction to giving for kids
This book is a great way for families to teach their children about the value of giving and the effect a small kindness or gift may have on many lives. The illustrations are an added plus. It is a good and easy introduction into microfinance and how one person can help make the world a better place
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The Economics of Microfinance9 reviews
Beatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch
The MIT Press, 2005
Great book for self-teaching
After reading "Banker to the Poor," I was interested in getting a bit more of an unbiased view of the subject of microfinance. The authors' views are clear and concise about each topic, plus they offer lots of other sources for the information. While it is obviously intended as s textbook, this book is a great way to teach yourself about the theory and empirical studies about microfinance.
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The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism: A Compelling Case for Microcredit2 reviews
Jim Klobuchar, Susan Cornell Wilkes
Kirk House Publishers, 2003
The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism:A Compelling Case
This is a wonderful book full of mind and heart expanding stories of people making it in the third world. Anyone with an interest in learning about positive global forces at work should read this book. The book also brings together information on Microcredit activity from many organizations and provides a terrific handbook of resources. It is extremely well written and quite entertaining with ...
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism22 reviews
Muhammad Yunus
PublicAffairs, 2008
"Creating A World Without Poverty" by Muhammad Yunus
In "Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism," the follow up to "Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty", Muhammad Yunus describes a new economic entity he calls the "social business." In short, this is an organization that has a specific social goal as opposed to regular business, for which profit is the only goal.
Yunus is ...
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When There Was No Money: Building ACLEDA Bank in Cambodia's Evolving Financial Sector2 reviews
Heather A. Clark
Springer, 2006
excellent reading
Clark has written a remarkable story of modern microfinance. The evolution of ACLEDA is a lucid demonstration of the past, present and future thinking on microfinance worldwide from a more charitable exercise stigmatising microentrepreneurs as "the poor" to a businesslike venture that is focused on delivering competative financial services to the same customer base. Clearly a victory for the ...
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Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development In An Era Of Welfare Reform (ILR Press Book)1 review
Nancy C. Jurik
ILR Press, 2005
Valuable and informative
Jurik's book provides valuable insight and understanding for those of us interested in creating and supporting positive economic pathways for low-income women. Must read for researchers in gender studies and economic inequality, and controbutes to a broader analysis of the impact of welfare reform.
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Banking on Small Business: Microfinance in Contemporary Russia1 review
Gail Buyske
Cornell University Press, 2007
Two Thumbs Up
Whether you are a micro or traditional banker or a regional specialist interested in small and medium enterprise (SME) lending in the opaque and tumultuous Russian business sector, I highly recommend "Banking on Small Business: Microfinance in Contemporary Russia" by Gail Buyske.
Buyske knows what she's writing about, having held significant positions in international banking (with Chase ...
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Microfinance Distance Learning Course4 reviews
United Nations.Development Fund.Special Unit for Microfinance
United Nations, 2002
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF MICROFINANCE
Do you want a to become a Microfinance Specialist? Then this is the book for you. The "Microfinance Distance Learning Course" offers you the chance to develop or enhance your knowledge of microfinance principles and practices from the comfort of your house, office.... wherever you choose. The eleven lesson course, comes on an interactive CD and allows for self-study without a tutor and enables ...
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Building Inclusive Financial Systems: A Framework for Financial Access1 review
Brookings Institution Press, 2007
A handful of graphs and an index round out this welcome contribution of ideas
Building Inclusive Financial Systems is an anthology of scholarly essays by a wide variety of educated authors discussing how broad-based, inclusive financial systems can effectively reduce poverty and expand opportunity in developing countries. With an especial eye toward the field of microfinance, Building Inclusive Financial Systems offers solid grounding and recommendations for responsibly ...
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Fighting Poverty with Microcredit: Experience in Bangladesh (World Bank Publication)1 review
Shahidur R. Khandker
A World Bank Publication, 1998
Group-based lending that works
Three microcredit programs (Grameen Bank, BRAC and RD-12) are thoroughly discussed and evaluated as instruments for poverty reduction. With loan recovery rates higher than 90% for landless borrowers, group-based lending (that is, group guarantee to repay individual loans) is the key to substantial household economic improvement - 5% of participating households lift themselves out of poverty ...
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The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story1 review
Asif Dowla, Dipal Barua
Kumarian Press, 2006
A comprehensive look at Grameen Bank
No two people hold a more appropriate position to write about Grameen Bank than Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua. As former students of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus, Dowla and Barua have been apprised of the logic behind small loans since the Bank's inception. They have Yunus's trust and approval when it comes to sharing Grameen with the world, which readers can ...
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Transforming Microfinance Institutions: Providing Full Financial Services to the Poor1 review
Joanna Ledgerwood, Victoria White
World Bank Publications, 2006
The primary source for information on sustainable microfinance institutions
This edited volume includes contributions from some of the strongest practitioners in the field of microfinance, many of whom work at Accion in Washington DC. A number of the authors have also taught advanced microfinance classes, and this experience comes across in a volume that is both accessible and reflects their ground-breaking work.
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Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective (Sustainable Banking With the Poor) 3 reviews
Joanna Ledgerwood
World Bank Publications, 2001
This is the place to start for Microfinance
For those interested in Microfinance this is a must have for any library. It covers the basics of Microfinance including whose involved and where it is succeeding. It is really more of a reference guide than anything else and is very helpful for those starting out. I found it invaluable for writing papers related to microfinance. If you are going into this field or have an interest in ...
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More Pathways Out of Poverty1 review
Kumarian Press, 2006
There are many books that survey the social condition of poverty...
If the title sounds familiar, it's because More Pathways Out of Poverty and its companion follows out the 2002 and 2006 books respectively, and offers new practices in microfinance and economics relating to poverty and social issues. There are many books that survey the social condition of poverty - but far less which examine economic strategies for circumventing poverty in the world. That's why ...
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Whats Wrong with Microfinance?1 review
Practical Action, 2007
An eye opener
I initially thought this book will have negative points of view on Microfinance. In other words, what has Microfinance done apart from creating more debts but on smaller scale? Which only goes to enchain more people with loans? However, I now think, the book was a necessary read for any Microfinance enthusiast, its an eye opener, which will no doubt help Microfinance practitioners consider ...
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Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families1 review
Kumarian Press, 2002
Creating tangible, effective solutions
Compiled and edited by Sam Daley-Harris (Founder and President of RESULTS Education Fund), Pathways Out Of Poverty: Innovations In Microfinance For The Poorest Families is an informed and informative study of how to best help the 1.2 billion people worldwide who subsist on less than $1 a day. Pathways Out Of Poverty is a detailed survey and analysis of microfinance as a means of loaning very ...
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A Billion Bootstraps : Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty15 reviews
McGraw-Hill, 2007
The Best Book Ever Written About Solving Poverty Through Microcredit
"A Billion Bootstraps" is a beautifully written and informationally rich guide for donors to what is perhaps the most effective method of poverty reduction and wealth creation in the developing world -- microcredit. Tiny empowerment loans are granted to underemployed men and women so they can launch their own small businesses - and lift themselves and their families out of chronic poverty, into ...
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Microfinance and Poverty Reduction (Oxfam Development Guidelines)1 review
Susan Johnson, Ben Rogaly
Oxfam Publishing, 1997
Oxfam on microfinance - read this one!
This excellent little handbook is a compact guide to the most important practical (and some of the philosophical) questions, debates and challenges in microfinance today. A tidy crash course on the topic, I read this book before starting an internship in a microfinance bank and was happily surprised to find that I could clearly understand and even critically interpret the practices of the bank, ...
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty75 reviews
Muhammad Yunus
Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007
Amazing read!
Banker to the Poor is a really clear way of explaining what microfinance is as well as showing the drastic difference that $40 can make in people's lives. Shows the humanitarianism of microlending, why it's better than just giving people money, and how it can be a useful tool to help many people. I really recommend this book for anyone, and especially so for anyone interested in helping others or ...
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