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Microfinance to lift people out of poverty

Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir also argues microfinance helps strengthen democracy

Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir argues that entrepreneurial microfinance projects empower the poor and strengthen democracy. Epidemics expert Stefan Kaufmann plots the probability of new pandemics and American classicist James O'Donnell's rexamines the end of the Roman Empire.

Presented by Bridget Kendall.

23 minutes

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