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The following is a list of recommended resources that are relevant to Microfinance, Development and Guatemala. Books Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Muhammad Yunus Aurum Press, 1998 Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, Muhammad Yunus Public Affairs, 2007 Development as Freedom Amartya Sen Knopf, 1999 The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time, Jeffrey Sachs Penguin Press, 2005 The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits, C. K. Prahala Wharton School Publishing, 2004 Half the Sky: Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicolas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Knopf, 2009 The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor, Marguerite Robinson World Bank Publications, 2001 The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism: A Compelling Case for Microcredit, Jim Klobuchar and Susan Cornell Wilkes Kirk House Publishers, 2003 Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families, ed. Sam Daly-Harris Kumarian Press, 2002 Price of a Dream: the Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea that is Helping the Poor to Change their Lives, David Bornstein Simon & Schuster, 1996 Women at the Center: Grameen Borrowers After One Decade, Helen Todd University Press Ltd, 1996. Websites CGAP’s Microfinance Gateway www.microfinancegateway.org or www.cgap.org MicroBanking bulletin www.microbanking-mbb.org Microcredit Summit www.microcreditsummit.org The SEEP Network www.seepnetwork.org Useful Resources: Guatemala Non FictionThe Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?, Francisco Goldman Grove Press, 2007A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala, W. George Lovell University of Texas Press, 2000 Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer Harvard University Press, 1999 Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny, Jean-Marie Simon W.W. Norton, 1987 Guatemala, Never Again – Recovery of Historical Memory Project The Official Report of the Human Rights Office, Archdiocese of Guatemala, 1999 Guatemalan Journey, Stephen Connelly Benz University of Texas Press, 1996 Guatemala’s Woven Wealth, Deborah Chandler and Raymond Senuk Interweave Press, 2009 If Quetzals Could Cry: A Guatemalan Scrapbook with Design for Worship, Dondeena Caldwell Friendship Press, 1990 Our Culture is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge, and Healing in Guatemala, Jonathan Moeller Powerhouse Books, 2004 Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope, Beatriz Manz University of California Press, 2004 Return of the Maya: Guatemala – A Tale of Survival, Thomas Hoepker Henry Holt, 1998 Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala, Daniel Wilkinson Houghton Mifflin, 2002 Silent Looms, Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town, Tracy Bachrach Elhers University of Texas Press, 2000 Voices of the Voiceless: Women, Justice and Human Rights in Guatemala, Michelle Tooley Herald Press, 1997 MemoirI, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Elisabeth Burgos and Rigoberta Menchu Verso, 1984 FictionThe Rape of Hope, Robert E. Hinshaw Look Back Books, 2008 My Lake at the Center of the World, Robert E. Hinshaw Look Back Books, 2007 Hummingbird House, Patricia Henley MacMurray and Beck, 1999
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