[news] Microcredit and Women's Poverty

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

**Granting this year's Nobel Peace Prize to microcredit guru Muhammad Yunus affirms neoliberalism.**

by Susan FeinerDrucilla Barker

A celebration of microcredit in Vanuatu. Feiner and Barker argue that microcredit helps individual women, but does little to alleviate poverty.

DOLLARS & SENSE--The key to understanding why Grameen Bank founder and CEO Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize lies in the current fascination with individualistic myths of wealth and poverty.

  


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