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Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development by Ananya Roy Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-415-87673-7 / 0415876737 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-87673-5 / 9780415876735 Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or authoritativ |