A website dedicated to the description of and information about microcredit, the year of microcredit, and organizations that sponsor microcredit.

... to show a grasp of the depths of world poverty and ingenious ways to attack it. They ... that says it has helped 230,000 people escape poverty. It sells ... weeks to buy a pump and then earned $1,000 the next year selling vegetables.

NOW on PBS is devoting an entire beat to covering people who use business strategies for humanitarian purposes - also known as social entrepreneurs. While the NOW broadcast will investigate more than a dozen social entrepreneurs, the website features news,

During the Great Depression between the two world wars, the Brit John Maynard Keynes came to an insight that was implemented in the 1960s. The state must guide the econmy by its spending to avert the danger of a depression.. Friedman the ideologist was mor

... from even the most well intentioned poverty alleviation scheme. Labor intensive ... financing, are crucial to success in poverty alleviation, both in the short and

Well-meaning national and international bureaucracies dispense foreign aid under conditions in which bureaucracy fails. The environment that created aid bureaucracies led those organizations to (a) define their output as money disbursed rather than service

The Mystery of Capital , by Hernando DeSoto, could be among the most important books on economics of any century. DeSoto notes that more than a decade after the fall of Marxism, the expected capitalist revolution has not occurred. Capitalism has been succe

... is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the

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... calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first, of course, is that so many