Notes
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2 Sudhirendar Sharma,"Death by Microcredit," The Times of India, Sept. 16, 2006.
3 Carlos Danel and Carlos Labarthe, "A Letter to Our Peers,"; June 2008. Available at
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4 Richard Rosenberg, Adrian Gonzalez, and Sushma Narain, "The New Moneylenders:
Are the Poor Being Exploited by High Microcredit Interest Rates?" Occasional Paper 15, Washington, D.C.: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, February 2009.
5 Nimal Fernando, "Understanding and Dealing with High Interest Rates on Microcredit"
Manila: Asian Development Bank, May 2006.
6 "Strengthening Consumer Protection." Available at http://financialstability.gov/
docs/regulatoryreform/strengthening_consumer_protection.pdf.
7 Akhand Tiwari, Anvesha Khandelwal, and Minakshi Ramji, "How Do Microfinance
Clients Understand Their Loans?" Chennai, India: Centre for Micro Finance/
Institute for Financial Management and Research, October 2008.
8 Rosenberg, Gonzalez, and Narain, "The New Moneylenders: Are the Poor Being Exploited
by High Microcredit Interest Rates?"
9 Chuck Waterfield, "Implementing Pricing Transparency in Microfinance,"
MFTransparency Newsletter, 2009.
10 Subrata Kumar Mitra,"Exploitative Microfinance Interest Rates," Asian Social
Science, 5(5), May 2009: 87-93.
11 ";The New Moneylenders: Are the Poor Being Exploited by High Microcredit Interest
Rates?"
12 Waterfield,"Implementing Pricing Transparency in Microfinance.&"
13 Fernando, "Understanding and Dealing With High Interest Rates on Microcredit."
14 Brigit Helms and Xavier Reille,"Interest Rate Ceilings and Microfinance: The Story
So Far,&" Occasional Paper 9, Washington, D.C.: Consultative Group to Assist the
Poor, September 2004.
15 "The Crushing Burden of Microcredit," France 24, April 4, 2008. Available at http://
www.france24.com/en/20080404-bangladesh-burden-microcredit-caring-grameenbank-
mohammed-yunnus.
16 Tiwari, Khandelwal, and Ramji, "How Do Microfinance Clients Understand Their Loans?"
17 The Pocantico Declaration is available at http://www.accion.org/Document.Doc?id=442.
18 Muhammad Yunus, "Lifting People Worldwide Out of Poverty," Knowledge@
Wharton, May 27, 2009.