Resources
BOOKS
Microfinance
Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus Yunus founded the Grameen Bank and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, Muhammad Yunus
The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism, Jim Klobuchar and Susan Cornell Wilkes See more about this book here.
Transforming Lives $40 at a Time: Women and Microfinance – Upending the Status Quo, Dana E Whitaker Fabulous photos. Dana Whitaker is a member of San Francisco’s Women Advancing Microfinance.
Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World, Alex Counts Alex Counts is the CEO of the Grameen Foundation USA.
The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor, Marguerite Robinson
Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective, Joanna Ledgerwood Joanna Ledgerwood works for the World Bank.
Poverty
COMMON WEALTH: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Jeffrey D. Sachs Jeffrey Sachs is a world renowned economist and expert on global poverty and solutions.
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done about It., Paul Collier
Paul Collier is an economist and one of the world leading authorities on African economics.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Social Entrepreneurship
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Daniel Bornstein David Bornstein is a journalist specializing in social innovations.
