Archive for the ‘finance’ tag
Microfinance History
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Discoveries…Dominican Republic [Blu-ray] $24.95 Explored and claimed by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage in 1492, the island of Hispaniola became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean & the American mainland. The Dominican Republic is now the number one tourist destination in the Caribbean. Kiteboarding is the hottest new water sport and Cabarete is the place to be with the most fantastic kitesurfing conditions on the plan… |
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Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty $4.20 It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make and sell stools. In a short time, the women were able to repay the loans while continuing to support themselves and their families. With that initial eye-opening suc… |
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Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma (Nias- Nordic Institiute of Asian Studies Monographs) $23.26 This book tells the story of Burma’s financial system – of its banks, moneylenders and ‘microfinanciers’ – from colonial times to the present day. It argues that Burma’s financial system matters, and that the careful study of this system can tell us something more general about Burma – not least about how the richest country in Southeast Asia at the dawn of the twentieth century, became the poores… |
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The Pledge: ASA, Peasant Politics, and Microfinance in the Development of Bangladesh $6.98 The Association for Social Advancement (ASA) of Bangladesh recently topped Forbes magazine’s first-ever list of the world’s best microfinance banks. This is an extraordinary achievement for an organization that started life as a revolutionary movement aiming to bring a peasant-led government to the newly created and desperately poor South Asian nation of Bangladesh. This book tells the story of ho… |