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| SMALL CHANGE: How Fifty Dollars Can Change the World | 
 enlarge | Author: Jurriaan Kamp
Publisher: Cosimo Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 982111
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 1596057874
Dewey Decimal Number: 338
EAN: 9781596057876
ASIN: 1596057874
Publication Date: May 1, 2006
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Product Description
Help people help themselves: That's the idea behind microcredit. Small loans-sometimes no more than $50-can radically improve the life of a poor family. Where development aid and billion-dollar loans fail, microcredit is emerging as the success story in the battle against world poverty. People who were previously considered "unbankable" no longer have to look to loan sharks for funding. With microcredit, they can become owners of small businesses. And it turns out they nearly always repay their loans on time. In many countries, professional organizations have become active in the field of microfinancing. To research this book, Kamp traveled to Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia and India to speak with the people who grant microcredit and those who receive it. Their stories make it clear that microcredit is a tremendous stimulus for economic and social development and, in particular, for people's self-awareness. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Ode magazine, JURRIAAN KAMP has published two previous books, Because People Matter: Building an Economy That Works for Everyone (2000) and It Is Possible (1998).
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Quick read on micro-credit March 8, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first heard of this book through the magazine "Ode", whose editor is Jurriaan Kamp, the author of "Small Change"..I found the book an easy read. It is full of short vignettes about how micro-credit in very small amounts yields signicant help to very needy people. The book doesn't seem to sequence readily because it deals with a number of individual situations, but if one is not familiar with how individuals and small groups are making huge differences with small funds, it is a worth-while read.
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