Slumdog Entrepreneur by Sam Daley-Harris, Founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign When my wife and I slipped into our theater seats to watch Slumdog Millionaire, we braced ourselves for a journey into urban slums, a world inhabited by over one billion people globally. But unlike the movie-goers i...

Kind of randomly yesterday, I was reminded of the emerging concept of microcredit, in which very small loans are made to entrepreneurs in preference to “charity” aid. Specifically, I saw a banner ad for Kiva.org on someone’s site and, intrigued, clicked through. Kiva runs a modest ...