1.0 link 87695 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/grassroots-banking-with-m_b_87695.html The front page of Saturday, February 16th's Financial Times announced that a Bangladeshi microcredit bank, Grameen, was coming to the aid of impoverished people in the United States. One of the poorest countries in the world has set up shop in Queens, New York to help extremely disadvantaged women and men climb out of the cycle of welfare and debt via microloans. Two days later, the funder of this bank, Nobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit,...

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