'We had to find a way to change microfinance...'

…to make it available to any Indian who wanted to escape poverty.

March 28, 2012 / 14:10 IST

It was the summer of 1995 when a woman in rural India asked the simple, five-word question that changed my life.

I was an idealistic graduate student, working in India on a Fulbright scholarship and determined to change the world. This was my second stint working in remote Indian villages with the nonprofit Deccan Development Society (DDS), but my first time working in microfinance. The possibilities of microfinance

first published: Mar 20, 2012 06:43 pm

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