TY - BOOK AU - Alex Counts AU - COUNTS (Alex) TI - Give Us Credit: How small Loans Today Can Shape Our Tomorrow SN - 8173140359 U1 - 332.1095492 23 PY - 1996/// CY - New Delhi PB - Research Press KW - Grameen Bank KW - Banking KW - Women N1 - When Muhammad Yunus returned to his native Bangladesh 25 years ago with an American doctorate in economics, he set out to try and combat the entrenched poverty there. By 1995, his Grameen Bank had made loans totaling $500 million to two million borrowers, mostly women. In spite of the fact that these borrowers were the poorest of the poor, Grameen has had a near-perfect repayment rate ER -