Around 1970s, Muhammed Yunus, a Bangladeshi professor of economics, began to give micro loans to poor people. He lent $27 (856 take) to 42 women in a village called Jobra. The women returned with a profit of $0.02 each on the loan few weeks after. By late 1983, the project had begun as a full-fle
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