Economist, Businesspeople, Philanthropists...it takes all.

To help 100 Million people take their first steps out of poverty of whom 97% are women is not an easy task but this is what Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh have won the Nobel Peace Prize for. Average loans of $200 totaling $5.72 billion helping 6.6 million are numbers that are impressive for a small country with 141 million people.

So why would the Enquirer Editorial Blog bother with this...maybe this kind of creativity and ingenuity is what is needed to help people build back up their community in areas such as Over-the-Rhine. And just maybe this same level of 'out of the box' thinking tapping on various partners can even be exercized in the undeniable problem of crime.

Granted Yunus and Grameen have some issues, such as high interest rates, but they also have a repayment rate of 99%. Each borrower is in a group of five borrowers and qualifies for further loans only if everyone pays back...now that is the kind of peer pressure that counts for something!