How Microfinance Became the ‘It’ Development Program, in The Nation

The Nation magazine published an excerpt from my first book, We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky. The piece traces the rise of microfinance—how it is that small, anti-poverty lending became popular among hard core feminists and neoliberal economists alike, and the aftereffects of such programs decades after Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on microlending.

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