Small Change, Big Deal
Money as if People Mattered
Published on 29. June 2012
181 pages
978-1-78099-314-0 (ISBN)
Description
As we consider the plight of our consumer-driven economy, it is easy to forget that money is about relationship: between individuals and between communities. In our current financial mess, it is worth reminding ourselves of community-based alternatives, and to look closely at microcredit, a model of peer lending to enable people to move out of poverty. From Bangladesh, from South Africa, from Ghana, and from the East End of London, we are given a worm's eye view of small scale work, of personal transformation, and the building of community. Small and local is still beautiful, and has much to teach us.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
0,48 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78099-314-0 (9781780993140)
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06/2012
John Hunt Publishing
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By Jennifer Kavanagh
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Beauty and the Beast
- 2 Money: a moral tale
- 3 Community finance
- 4 Microcredit
- 5 Trust
- 6 Bangladesh: 1999
- 7 How it works
- 8 Poverty
- 9 Street Cred: London UK, 1999 and 2009
- 10 An opportunity lost: Pine Ridge Native American Reservation, South Dakota, USA: 2003
- 11 Impact
- 12 Jacaranda, Madagascar: 2004
- 13 Masambe!, Eastern Cape, South Africa: 2005
- 14 Self-belief
- 15 Yen Daakye, Ashanti region, Ghana: 2009
- 16 Microcredit: where are we now?
- 17 Only connect
- Appendix I: The Sixteen Decisions
- Appendix II: Action sheet
- Appendix III: Why microfinance works
- Further reading
