Easy Money: Microfinance in India (2011)

From Mongolia to Mexico, big financial players are pursuing profits from an unlikely set of customers: the world's poor. By putting personal loans within reach of the working poor, or by investing in their businesses, financial players say they are helping both low-income societies and their own bottom lines. We examine this exciting economic phenomenon in the Andhra Pradesh region of India and come to some very disheartening conclusions about the dark sides of microfinance.