Systemic change by lending to beggars

annaread
October 18, 2007

Grameen Bank — Bank of the Villages — really does lend to beggars. Take a look at this video to get another example of how microfinance can accomplish systemic change and visit their informative and surprising website.

Surprising? Well, yes. How many Nobel Peace Prize winners have also been called by a leading business magazine one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs? The site clearly describes the bank’s ideals and also allows visitors to drill down to great detail about Grameen.


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