We Are Not Able To Live In The Sky: Seductive Promise Of Microfinance Mara Kardas-Nelson Scribe Publications Αγγλικά Βιβλία Economics Business &

A Deeply Reported Work Of Journalism That Explores The Promises And Perils Global Microfinance Told Through Eyes Those Who In Small-Scale Lending Women Borrowers Sierra Leone West Africa Mid-1970S Muhammad Yunus An American-Trained Bangladeshi Economist Met Poor Female Stoolmaker Needed Money To Expand Her Business Act Known As Beginning Lent $27 42 Hoping Small Credit Would Help Them Pull Themselves Out Poverty Soon Yunus’s Grameen Bank Was Born Very But Often High-Interest Loans For People Took Off 2006 Won Nobel Peace Prize Their On Anti-Poverty There’s Problem With This Story There Are Mounting Concerns These Likely Bury Debt They From Facing Consequences Such Jail Time Forced Land Sales Hundreds Have Even Reportedly Committed Suicide What Happened? Did Take Wrong Turn Or Flawed Beginning? We Not Able Live Sky Is About Unintended Blind Optimism Decades-Long Ramifications Seemingly Policy Choices Rooted Stories Kardas-Nelson Asks: Happens When Single Financially Focused Solution Inequity Ignores Real Drivers Poverty? Stands Benefit More Importantly Gets Left Behind? Σελίδες: 400 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm