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January 15, 2010
In a new Q&A, David Roodman explains why he has decided to write his new book on microfinance in public—via a blog where he posts chapters, poses questions and shares what he has learned—and describes how this innovative process is helping to shape his manuscript. Spoiler alert: in a recent CGD work...
January 15, 2010
Last week Bangladesh's Grameen Bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for waging a war against poverty with a revolutionary micro-lending system. CGD research fellow David Roodman has just released a working paper, Microfinance as a Business. After the Nobel Peace Prize...