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When Risk-Taking Feels Impossible at the Poverty Line

I can get a microloan to expand my business but taking on debt feels like tempting fate when my family has barely enough food as it is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The margin for error becomes impossibly small when basic survival is at stake.

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“Where Are You with Microfinance — small loans and global poverty?”

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