A billion bootstraps: microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty /
Smith, Philip B.
A billion bootstraps: microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty / Microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty Phil Smith, Eric Thurman. - xiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.
Discusses how microcredit can be used as a business strategy to help eliminate poverty, which involves granting small loans to impoverished people to start businesses to support their families and improve communities; and also describes why short-term relief charity programs perpetuate problems.
Adult Adult Follett Library Resources
0071489975 (trade) 9780071489973 (trade)
2007273393
Loans, Personal.
Microfinance.
Poverty.
Microfinance.
Personal loans.
Poverty.
HG178.3 / .S65 2007
338.91
A billion bootstraps: microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty / Microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty Phil Smith, Eric Thurman. - xiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.
Discusses how microcredit can be used as a business strategy to help eliminate poverty, which involves granting small loans to impoverished people to start businesses to support their families and improve communities; and also describes why short-term relief charity programs perpetuate problems.
Adult Adult Follett Library Resources
0071489975 (trade) 9780071489973 (trade)
2007273393
Loans, Personal.
Microfinance.
Poverty.
Microfinance.
Personal loans.
Poverty.
HG178.3 / .S65 2007
338.91