Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families

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Summary: Creating tangible, effective solutions
Review: Compiled and edited by Sam Daley-Harris (Founder and President of RESULTS Education Fund), Pathways Out Of Poverty: Innovations In Microfinance For The Poorest Families is an informed and informative study of how to best help the 1.2 billion people worldwide who subsist on less than $1 a day. Pathways Out Of Poverty is a detailed survey and analysis of microfinance as a means of loaning very small amounts of money to help families become self-sufficient, (if you give a man bread he eats for a day; if you loan him enough to buy a fishing pole then he can feed himself). Individual chapters cogently address the special concerns of HIV/AIDS prevention among the poorest fifth of the entrepreneurial world; how microfinance can empower women; how microfinance can improve reproductive health; and much, much more. Pathways Out Of Poverty is a very highly recommended reading for anyone concerned with creating tangible, effective solutions to the age-old problem of endemic poverty.