Title: Small loans, big dreams
First published: 2008
Description: Microfinancing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts reveals how Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus revolutionized global antipoverty efforts through the development of this approach. This book presents compelling stories of women benefiting from Yunus's microcredit in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago, and recounts the experiences of different borrowers in each country, interspersing them with stories of Yunus, his colleagues, and their counterparts in Chicago.
Subjects: Banks and banking, Business, Economic conditions, Finance, Grameen Bank, Microfinance, Nonfiction, Poor, Rural poor, Women, Small business, finance, Poverty
Places: Bangladesh, Chicago Metropolitan Area, Developing countries, Illinois
People: Muhammad Yunus (1940-)
LC classification: HG3290.6.A8 G73 2008