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Product Description: Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) provide poor people in remote, rural areas with a safe place to store small amounts, and in doing so to build up a fund from which small, flexible loans can be taken by the members. These independent associations operate in areas that standard microfinance programs cannot reach due to high costs and have proved successful in more than 30 countries worldwide...read more

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9781853396656 | Practical Action Pub, May 30, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) provide poor people in remote, rural areas with a safe place to store small amounts, and in doing so to build up a fund from which small, flexible loans can be taken by the members.

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Product Description: Originally published in 1931, this is the story of the lighter-than-air ship. It is not generally known that the first passenger-carrying flight was made in 1783, more than a century before the Wright brothers - or that flying really began with lighter-than-air craft...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781589639928 | Fredonia Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1931, this is the story of the lighter-than-air ship.

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Product Description: The treadle irrigation pump is able to lift up to seven thousand litres of water per hour using the power of the human body, and can be made locally at low cost in small-scale metalworking shops. Its acceptance in Bangladesh where it was first developed in 1984 is extraordinary, with over 500,000 pumps estimated now to be in use...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781853393129 | Practical Action Pub, December 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The treadle irrigation pump is able to lift up to seven thousand litres of water per hour using the power of the human body, and can be made locally at low cost in small-scale metalworking shops.

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