The Micro Debt
For decades, experts have hailed microcredit as the paramount solution to global poverty. But there is a lesser-known version of that story in which Grameen Bank founder Mohammad Yunus and other promoters of miniaturized finance appear to serve most...
The Women’s Bank of Bangladesh
More than 100 million people live below poverty level in Bangladesh—many of them women. Thanks to the Grameen Bank and the small-business loans it makes to women only, many of them and their families are beginning to prosper. This program describe...
Small Change, Big Business: The Women’s Bank of Bangladesh 10 Years Later
Micro credit—small loans administered with no collateral requirement—might represent the most powerful weapon in the fight against global poverty. But is micro credit a sustainable solution? This program follows up on the 1995 documentary The Wo...