Cambodia - How microcredit is making the world's poor even poorer

Microcredits for the world's poor have long been considered the ideal way to combat poverty. But this film documents a bleak scenario -- in which microcredits have destroyed entire families. Over-indebtedness has driven some recipients to suicide. Expectations were high. When Muhammad Yunus, the...

42 min - Society & Culture - DW Documentary

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