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“If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.”

Ifs Men Pay Drink Microcredit

Author:Jane Goodall

“Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.”

People Reach Out Conventional Propositions Banking Microcredit

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.”

Needs Firsts Poor Poverty Feet Keys Development Amount Extremes Stuck Minimum Ladders Poorest Boost Overhead Ending Poverty Extreme Poverty Microcredit

Book:The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

Source: The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

“This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.”

People Helping Inspiration Social Poverty Charity Objectives Microcredit

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.”

World Humans Two Ideas Self Suffering Opportunity Individual Human Beings Vision Poverty Credit Self Discovery Two Things Exploration Loan Microcredit

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.”

Poor Poverty Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Lifts Microcredit

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.”

World Opportunity Technology Economy Information Communication Entrepreneur Village Poorest New Opportunity Communication Technology Information And Communication Microcredit

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.”

Ideas Microcredit Microfinance

Author:Kofi Annan

“Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.”

Fighting Poverty Cost Tools Global Poverty Microcredit Microfinance

Author:Jonathan Morduch

“Microcredit is about giving hope.”

Giving Microcredit

Author:Natalie Portman

“Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge”

People Energy Poor Remarkable Poor People Reservoirs Posing Microcredit Microfinance

Author:Kofi Annan

“Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves.”

People Giving Helping Opportunity Energy Poor Tools Remarkable Poor People Margins Reservoirs Posing Microcredit Microfinance

Author:Kofi Annan

“At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.”

Poor Levels Poverty Feet Keys Development Extremes Ladders Poorest Ending Poverty Extreme Poverty Microcredit

Author:Jeffrey Sachs