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Country BriefingsThe following country briefings contain information from various sources (including The World Fact Book at www.cia.gov and US Department of State at www.travel.state.gov) and provide valuable information for volunteer travel. Download PDF reader. Download DOC reader. |
Suggested Background Reading and Web Links
- White Paper - Volunteerism: An Old Concept, A New Business Model for Scaling Microfinance and Technology-for-Development Solutions
- Portfolios of the Poor
- CGAP
- Microcredit Summit Campaign
- Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor, 2003
- Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, 2008
- Alex Counts, Give Us Credit, 1996
- Alex Counts, Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are
- Changing the World, 2008
- Joanna Ledgerwood, Microfinance Handbook, An Institutional and Financial Perspective, The World Bank, 2000
- Marguerite S. Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution, Volume 1: Sustainable Finance for the Poor, The World Bank, 2001
- Marguerite S. Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution, Volume 2: Lessons from Indonesia, The World Bank, 2002
- Thomas Fisher and M.S. Sriram, Beyond Micro-Credit, Putting Development Bank into Micro-Finance, Oxfam, 2002
- C.K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Wharton School Publishing, 2005
- Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, Princeton University Press, 2009
