Recommended Reading

Books

MICROFINANCE AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION

Portfolios of the Poor
Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven

Microfinance for Bankers and Investors: Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges of the Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Edited by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director Center for Financial Inclusion

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WOMEN

Half a Sky
Cheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof
Base of the Pyramid

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
C K Prahalad

SUSTAINABILITY

Innovation and Change,
Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard, Random House 2010
Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Random House 2007.2008
Chip Heath and Den Heath

STUDIES

Social and Environmental Investing

Investing for Social and Environmental Impact

Monitor Institute January 2009: Full Report [pdf]

MICROFINANCE

Grameen Foundation
Measuring the Impact of Microfinance: Taking Another Look, Kathleen O’Dell
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.1.5404/?page1=print
http://grameenfoundation.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/measuring-the-impact-of-microfinance-taking-another-look-2/

SMALL AND GROWING BUSINESS

ANDE Reports Catalyzing Support for Small and Growing Businesses

Articles

MicroCapital Monitor Monthly

New Yorker Magazine, May 17, 2010

PROFILES: The Poverty Lab: A New Method for Development Economics, Ian Parker

Economist Magazine

Financial Times