Mara Kardas-Nelson
Broschiertes Buch

We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky

the seductive promise of microfinance

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZEA deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in small-scale lending and of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stoolmaker who needed money to expand her business. In an act known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to 42 women, hoping small credit would help them to pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus's Grameen Bank was born and, v...