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Microlenders, Honored With Nobel, Are Struggling

Date: January 5, 2011

Author: Vikas Bajaj

QUOTE: microloans have prompted political hostility in Bangladesh, India, Nicaragua and other developing countries....But as with other trumpeted development initiatives that have promised to lift hundreds of millions from poverty, microcredit has struggled to turn rhetoric into tangible success.

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Key People:

• Anthony "Tony" Charles Lynton Blair
• Daniel Ortega
• President William ("Bill") Jefferson Clinton
• Sheik Hasina Wazed
• Alex Counts
• Muhammad Yunus

Key Organizations:

• Center for Global Development (CGD)
• Grameen Bank (GB)
• Grameen Foundation
• Indian National Congress (Congress Party)
• New York Times Company

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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Sharing / Resource Allocation
  • Information
    • Truth / Honesty / Lying / Cheating

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Industry-Specific Issues
    • Banking/Lending

• Social Sciences & Groups
  • Economics: General
    • Income Distribution/Poverty
    • Markets / Supply and Demand
    • World Trade
      • Third World Development

• Asia
  • South Asia
    • Bangladesh
    • India
    • Pakistan

• Central America / Caribbean
  • Nicaragua

• South America
  • Bolivia

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