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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 Fiction

The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?, Francisco Goldman Grove Press, 2007

A 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


Memoir

 

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Elisabeth Burgos and Rigoberta Menchu Verso, 1984


Fiction

 

The 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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