Description: Further DetailsTitle: We Are Not Able to Live in the SkyCondition: NewSubtitle: the seductive promise of microfinanceISBN-10: 1917189109EAN: 9781917189101ISBN: 9781917189101Publisher: Scribe PublicationsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/15/2024Description: A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in small-scale lending and of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stoolmaker who needed money to expand her business. In an act known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to 42 women, hoping small credit would help them to pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus’s Grameen Bank was born and, very small but often high-interest loans for poor people took off. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on anti-poverty lending. But there’s a problem with this story. There are mounting concerns that these small loans are as likely to bury poor people in debt as they are to pull them from poverty, with borrowers facing consequences such as jail time and forced land sales. Hundreds have even reportedly committed suicide. What happened? Did microfinance take a wrong turn, or was microfinance flawed from the beginning? We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky is a story about unintended consequences, blind optimism, and the decades-long ramifications of seemingly small policy choices, rooted in the stories of women borrowers in Sierra Leone. Kardas-Nelson asks: What happens when a single, financially focused solution to global inequity ignores the real drivers of poverty? Who stands to benefit and, more importantly, who gets left behind?Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 29mmAuthor: Mara Kardas-NelsonGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Business & FinanceType: TextbookRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
Publication Name: We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
Title: We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
Subtitle: the seductive promise of microfinance
ISBN-10: 1917189109
EAN: 9781917189101
ISBN: 9781917189101
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 08/15/2024
Release Year: 2024
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 153mm
Item Width: 29mm
Author: Mara Kardas-Nelson
Genre: Society & Culture
Subject: Business & Finance
Type: Textbook