Small Change, Big Deal: Money as if People Mattered

by Jennifer Kavanagh

Overview

As we consider the plight of our consumer-driven economy, it is easy to forget that money is about relationship: between individuals and between communities. In our current financial mess, it is worth reminding ourselves of community-based alternatives, and to look closely at microcredit, a model of peer lending to enable people to move out of poverty. From Bangladesh, from South Africa, from Ghana, and from the East End of London, we are given a worm’s eye view of small scale work, of personal transformation, and the building of community. Small and local is still beautiful, and has much to teach us.
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780993140
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	06/29/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	181
File size:	517 KB

About the Author

Jennifer Kavanagh gave up her career as a literary agent to work in the community. She is a microcredit practitioner, facilitates conflict resolution workshops and is active in the Quaker community. She has written six books, two of which will be published in 2012

Table of Contents

Preface 1

1 Introduction: Beauty and the Beast 3

2 Money: a moral tale 6

3 Community finance 23

4 Microcredit 34

5 Trust 44

6 Bangladesh: 1999 51

7 How its works 57

8 Poverty 73

9 Street Cred: London UK, 1999 and 2009 80

10 An opportunity lost: Pine Ridge Native American Reservation, South Dakota, USA, 2003 92

11 Impact 97

12 Jacaranda, Madagascar: 2004 106

13 Masambe!, Eastern Cape, South Africa: 2005 113

14 Self-belief 128

15 Yen Daakye, Ashanti region, Ghana: 2009 132

16 Microcredit: where we are now? 143

17 Only connect 147

Appendix I The Sixteen Decisions 160

Appendix II Action sheet 162

Appendix III Why microfinance works 164

Further reading 169