Why Social Business Is Capitalism's Missing Link - Good Business - HarvardBusiness.org
Now a growing force around the world, microcredit provides poor people with access to one of the most basic human needs: capital. By making small, unsecured loans of twenty, fifty, or a hundred dollars, Grameen Bank and similar institutions make it possible for a woman with nothing to start or expand a simple business—raising chickens, weaving baskets, husking rice. For tens of millions of families, this modest act has provided a permanent path out of poverty.
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