TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Philip B.
AU  - Thurman,Eric
TI  - A billion bootstraps: microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty 
SN  - 0071489975 (trade)
AV  - HG178.3 .S65 2007
U1  - 338.91 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Loans, Personal
KW  - Microfinance
KW  - Poverty
KW  - sears
KW  - Personal loans
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index; Adult; Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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
ER  -