Track 12

Unit 5b.

Economics.

Microcredit; changing lives.

Take the unit test.

Listen to each question circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is the main idea of the lecture?

2. Why did Professor Yunus start to think about ways to help poor people?

3. How much money did Sugio Begum earn after working all day?

4. How were Bengali villagers able to repay Dr. Yunus? Choose to answers.

5. What does microcredit mean? 6

6. Why don’t traditional banks loan money to the poor?

7. Who does the village bank mostly work with? Choose to answers.

8. What do bicycle managers do?

9. What does the story of Sugio Begum and her $30 loan show?

10. How does the speaker feel about the village bank?