Lifting The Poor: What The Mississippi Delta Can Teach The Congo

Recently, I met Bill Bynum, the CEO of HOPE Enterprise Corporation (HOPE), a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution that provides financial products and services to communities living in the "bank deserts" of the U.S. Mid South, a region of deep and persistent poverty. HOPE's mission is to improve livelihoods of poor people in economically distressed areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee--the epicenter for the civil rights movement.   As Bynum says in this fab...