Wali I. Mondal and Mark R. Peters

The Bold Promise of Microcredit: Creating a World without Poverty

In is 2006 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Muhammad Yunus set forth a vision for creating a world without poverty, a world where people would need to go to a museum to experience what poverty was like (Yunus, 1). Such a bold vision is inspirational and it was unthinkable just a few generations ago. Yunus is not alone in believing …