BOOKS
FOR THE MICROCREDIT BEGINNER AND AFICIONADO
There are hundreds of books on microcredit. Here is a sampler of books you might take a look at. If you want a starting point, I’d go with “Banker to the Poor” by Muhammed Yunus, the founder of microcredit. It’s a wonderful story. Enjoy!.
ECONOMICS & CAPITAL
The End of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs
The Mystery of Capital
Hernando de Soto
The Bottom Billion
Paul Collier
Creative Capitalism
Michael Kingsley
Giving
Bill Clinton
The Soul of Money
Lynne Twist
MICROCREDIT GENERAL
The International Bank of Bob
Bob Harris
Banker to the Poor
Muhammed Yunus
A Billion Bootstraps
Phil Smith & Eric Thurman
Creating a World without Poverty
Muhammed Yunus
Give Us Credit
Alex Counts
The Microfinance Revolution
Marguerite S. Robinson
MICROCREDIT DETAIL
Microfinance Handbook
The World Bank
Women in Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh
Aminur Rahman
Microfinance, a Reader
Thankom Arun
Microfinance – Perils and Prospects
Jude L. Fernando
Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the making of Development
Ananya Roy
Transforming Microfinance Institutions
Joanna Ledgerwood & Victoria White
Managing Risk and Creating Value with Microfinance
Mike Goldberg
The Economics of Microfinance
Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion & Jonathan Morduch
Microfinance for Bankers
Elizabeth Rhyne
Building Social Business
Muhammad Yunus
How Development Projects Persist
Erin Beck
BOOKS OF INSPIRATION
The Blue Sweater
Jacqueline Novogratz
Portfolios of the Poor
Daryl Collins et al
Out of Poverty
Paul Polak
Rickshaw Girl
Mitali Perkins
Half the Sky
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
The Last Hunger Season
Roger Thurow
White Man’s Burden
Wiliam Esterley
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson
Stones to Schools
Greg Mortenson
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
John Wood
Race Against Time
Stephen Lewis
A World of Three Zeros
Muhammad Yunus
WEconomy
Carl & Marc Kielburger, and Holly Branson