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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

Billion Bootstraps : Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and the Business Solution for Ending Poverty, Eric Thurman, Phil Smith

Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective, Joanna Ledgerwood Joanna Ledgerwood works for the World Bank.

Transforming Microfinance Institutions: Providing Full Financial Services to the Poor, Joanna Ledgerwood

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.

Gender

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are journalists that have reported on issues related to women for years and describe in this book how they see this as the story of the century.