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Poor can no longer bank on micro-credit

Pacific Standard Time — Friday, April 08, 2011

Poor can no longer bank on micro-credit: "

Photo: Reuters/Andrew Biraj An industry set up to fight poverty has fallen on hard times itself, writes Ben Doherty in Dhaka. Just about anywhere you go in Bangladesh you will find evidence of Muhammad Yunus's life work. Grameen, the bank for the poor ...

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