Small Loans, Big Dreams by Alex Counts
Microfinancing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts reveals how Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus revolutionized global antipoverty efforts through the development of this approach. This book presents compelling stories of women benefiting from Yunus's microcredit in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago, and recounts the experiences of different borrowers in each country, interspersing them with stories of Yunus, his colleagues, and their counterparts in Chicago.
Alex Counts is President and CEO of the Grameen Foundation, a nonprofit, Washington, D.C. based organization that has grown from modest beginnings in 1997 to become a global network of forty-six microfinance partners in twenty-four countries. Under his leadership, the Grameen Foundation impacts an estimated eighteen million lives in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Arab World. Counts trained to be a catalyst for change under Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and Managing Director of the Grameen Bank and corecipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780470196328 |
| ISBN 10 | 0470196327 |
| Title | Small Loans, Big Dreams |
| Author | Alex Counts |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-04-21 |
| Number of pages | 410 |
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