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Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth

A resource created by the Justice, Peace and Creation Team, World Council of Churches, explores the question of how the churches and...

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

By Muhammed Yunus. Memoir of how Yunus decided to change his life in order to help the world’s poor and outlines the...

Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Need

By Muhammed Yunus. Shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the...

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

By Muhammed Yunus. Reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway. Read more.

Effects of Microfinance on Small Scale Wheat Farmers: Micro-Finance Loans and Poverty Eradication on the Small Scale Farmers

By Isaac Kipruto Keror. A collection of the research finding done on small scale wheat farmers in Moiben Division Uasin Gishu County...

Empowering Rural Women: Micro-enterprise Through Achievement Motivation

By Kiron Wadhera & George Koreth. Provides original research on poor, rural women micro-entrepreneurs, whose achievement-motivation has been rigorously measured & establishes...

Micro Finance and Women

Edited by by G. Bhaskar & Kurapati Venkat Narayana. Contains research papers, authored by experts in the field of finance, which provide...

Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance: How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor (Globalization and Its Costs)

By Brian Warby. Analyzes the effect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context...

Sojourners

Encourages Christians to put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship through resources like...

The Microfinance Revolution: Lessons from Indonesia

By Marguerite Robinson. Examines many financial institutions, with a special emphasis on Indonesia — the first country to develop profitable micro-finance on...