Acumen: Jacqueline Novogratz
Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz
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Rwandan Women's Microfinance Bank
Rwandan women were not allowed to take out loans under Napoleonic code until 1986. Women, the average income at the time was about $112 a year. "I look back now as it was a radical move, but it was also crazy," she says of her co-founders' decision to ask even poor women to contribute to microfinance bank.
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