Smith, Philip B. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> Adult  Adult  Follett Library Resources 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0071489975 (trade) 9780071489973 (trade) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007273393 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Loans, Personal.<br/>Microfinance.<br/>Poverty.<br/>Microfinance.<br/>Personal loans.<br/>Poverty.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG178.3  / .S65 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.91