Recommended Reading

Websites:

 

Poverty:

 

The Chronic Poverty Research Centre is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists:

• to focus attention on chronic poverty
• to stimulate national and international debate
• to deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty
• to provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction.

http://www.chronicpoverty.org/

The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people.

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/

 

Microfinance:

 

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), is a consortium of 33 public and private development agencies working together to expand poor people's access to financial services.

http://www.cgap.org/
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/section/faq

 

 

Books:

 

Poverty

Introduction to Microfinance

Microfinance--Technical Reading

Other

 

 

 

Poverty:

 

The Skeptic's Guide To Global Poverty
by Dale Hanson Bourke

 

No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty
by Jeremy Seabrook

 

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey Sachs

 

 

 

 

Introduction to Microfinance:

 

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus

 

A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty
by Philip Smith, Eric Thurman

 

 

 

Microfinance--Technical Reading:

 

Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Systems
by Brigit Helms

 

Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective (Sustainable Banking With the Poor) by Joanna Ledgerwood

 

The Economics of Microfinance
by Beatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch

 

Reducing Global Poverty: The Case for Asset Accumulation
by Caroline O. N. Moser

 

 

 

Other:

 

Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference
by Shannon Daley-Harris, Jeffrey Keenan, Karen Speerstra

 

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
by David Bornstein

 

Less Is More: An Anthology of Ancient & Modern Voices Raised in Praise of Simplicity
by Goldian VandenBroeck (Editor)

 

Voluntary Simplicity, Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
by Duane Elgin