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Business Wire
April 29, 2008 08:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90306)
has announced the addition of "Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize
Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World" to their
offering.
Micro-financing is considered one of the most effective strategies
in the fight against global poverty. It can be implemented on the
massive scale necessary to respond to the urgent needs of the world's
poorest. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts looks
at the lives of micro-lending borrowers from the Grameen Foundation in
Bangladesh and Chicago. All of the borrowers profiled here are women of
little-to-no means, each struggling to gain financial independence.
Readers will discover how, in Bangladesh, these women face off against
very poor living conditions and the prejudice of men, while in Chicago,
they must overcome crime and other hurdles that come with life in the
inner city. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Small
Loans, Big Changes reveals how Muhammad Yunus and his concept of
micro-financing has helped those living in poverty achieve real
financial independence.
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