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We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky by Mara Kardas-Nelson (ARC 06/11/2024, New)

Description: For readers of Matthew Desmond, Katherine Boo, and Anand Giridharadas comes a deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promise and peril of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in microfinance and women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa.In 2005, pop star Bono proclaimed, “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime.” By the mid-2000s, it had become international development dogma that microfinance―very small, high-interest loans―was the way to end poverty. The UN had dubbed 2005 the year of microcredit. A year later, when Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on microfinance, he proclaimed that tiny loans would “put poverty in museums.”It was a beautiful vision. But there was just one microfinance doesn’t work – at least not as promised.Mara Kardas-Nelson's We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky is a story about unintended consequences, blind optimism, and the decades-long ramifications of seemingly small policy choices that reverberate around the world. It is a story of poor women doing their best to make ends meet under the toughest circumstances, and of international development workers, funders and advocates ―from Bono to Bill Gates to Bill Clinton―who promise a brighter future with a quick-fix solution that may ultimately trap poor people in poverty. The book is deeply rooted in the deeply immersive narratives of women who take out microfinance loans in Sierra Leone; their stories are set against a detailed history of the meteoric rise of Muhammad Yunus’ lofty vision and the gradual shift from a small non-profit program to a booming for-profit industry. We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky puts in harsh relief the questions we all should have been asking for who makes money off microfinance―and more importantly, who, and what, gets left behind?

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Location: Columbia, Maryland

End Time: 2024-11-10T04:31:44.000Z

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Book Title: We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Original Language: English

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Item Length: 9.2in

Publication Year: 2024

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 1in

Author: Mara Kardas-Nelson

Genre: Business & Economics, Social Science

Topic: Developing & Emerging Countries, Finance / General

Item Width: 6.1in

Item Weight: 15.9 Oz

Number of Pages: 400 Pages

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