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Reading List: Mara Kardas-Nelson
I wrote We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance (Metropolitan/Holt, June 2023) to understand the rise in popularity of small, anti-poverty loans, particularly among policymakers, celebrities, and funders in America and …