Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and the Business Solution for Ending Poverty

Name: Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and the Business Solution for Ending Poverty
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ISBN: 9780071489973

ISBN-10: 0071489975

ISBN-13: 9780071489973

Edition: 2007

Authors: Philip Smith, Eric Thurman

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On October 7, 2006, Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Price for his work founding the practice of microcredit Microcredit has been thoroughly covered in the media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, and many other major media outlets A Billion Bootstraps challenges readers to vote with their wallets by contributing to charities that are as accountable to donors as companies are to investors Smith is a high-profile businessman, and Thurman has been previously profiled on CNN and in Forbes

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 2/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.10" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.144




The power of what works



Beyond the $900 billion black hole



Giving credit where credit is due



Barefoot banking



Moving the world



Microcredit plus



Beyond good intentions



A thousand battles, a thousand victories



The best due diligence



Tough love leads to happy endings



A very brief history of microcredit



Selected microcredit organizations



Microcredit information sources



Calculating an end to poverty