Harris, Bob, 1963-

The International Bank of Bob : connecting our worlds one $25 Kiva loan at a time / Bob Harris. - New York : Walker & Co., 2013. - xii, 400 p. : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.



The French Riviera, Dubai, and the world -- Singapore, Bali, and Beijing -- Chicago, Fiji, and Broadway -- The mission -- The sacred valley of the Incas -- Welcome to Sarajevo -- The great rift valley and Nairobi -- Rwanda -- Dar es Salaam, Andhra Pradesh, and a walk to the sea -- Magellan's cross, Hanoi, and Cambodia -- Kathmandu -- India -- Beirut -- Home.

Bob Harris, a travel writer who reviewed the world's most luxurious accommodations, shares how a chance encounter with the impoverished construction workers who built the luxury resort inspired him to create Kiva.org, a micro-lending institution that finances small businesses around the world.

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Microfinance.
Small business--Finance.

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