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By Ananya Roy

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award!

This is a ebook approximately poverty however it doesn't research the bad and the powerless; as an alternative it stories those that deal with poverty. It sheds gentle on how robust associations regulate "capital," or circuits of revenue and funding, in addition to "truth," or authoritative wisdom approximately poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by way of substitute paradigms of improvement, and the ebook information those besides. utilizing the case of microfinance, the e-book participates in a suite of fierce debates approximately development – from the function of markets to the secrets and techniques of winning pro-poor associations. in accordance with decades of analysis in Washington D.C., Bangladesh, and the center East, Poverty Capital additionally grows out of the author's undergraduate educating to hundreds of thousands of scholars with regards to worldwide poverty and inequality.

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