Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Banking the Unbankable
Ibrahima Bakhoum · 1989
77/100
👍 Worth It
This one has real teeth — journalists from across the developing world reporting on eleven actual community credit schemes, showing how people with no collateral or steady income built their own working banks. It pushes back hard on the idea that the poor aren't creditworthy, and even though the specific programs are decades old now, the argument still lands.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing70
Originality82
Evidence & accuracy72
Hype vs delivers82
Age-fit80
Human-eye read72
Penny’s verdict77
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