Banker to the Poor would be a great pick. Here is a bit from the publisher’s website:
“The simple idea of micro-loans is revolutionizing developing economies. Instead of lending large sums of money to often corrupt bureaucracies, economist Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen Bank to offer tiny sums, as little as $5, to individual craftspeople, tenant farmers, and subsistence entrepreneurs so they could keep themselves afloat between buying and selling. That was in 1983. Sixteen years later, with $2.5 billion being dispersed annually to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh and repayment rates close to 100 percent, Yunus is being hailed as the father of a new economic model that is bringing people out of poverty. In Banker to the Poor, Yunus explains why his program works.”
Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. This book delves into poverty and the world of micro-lending and focuses on positive solutions. This topic applies to several areas of discipline (Economics, Social Studies, Urban Studies, Sociology, Women’s Studies, Business, etc).
