Credit Where Credit's Due

Bangladesh | 2000

"Poverty is not created by poor people... Poverty is created by institutions that we build, policies that we pursue; concepts that we create." Mohammad Yunus created a concept to combat poverty - micro-credit - providing loans to the poor to whom the banks won't lend. And it works. Life recounts how taking out a loan revolutionised the lives of village women Jahanara, Bilkis, Nargis, Minara, Mage…