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Women at the Centre

Helen Todd
Women at the Centre

Women at the Centre is about Grameen Bank. Grameen is probably the world’s best-known microfinance bank, and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, is almost certainly the world’s best-known microfinance banker. Todd wanted to find out what was really going on in the villages where, we had all been told, women were rapidly moving out of poverty within a few years of the arrival of a branch of the Grameen Bank in their neighbourhood.