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Niall Ferguson

“poverty is not the result of rapacious financiers exploiting the poor. It has much more to do with the lack of financial institutions, with the absence of banks, not their presence. Only when borrowers have access to efficient credit networks can they escape from the clutches of loan sharks, and only when savers can deposit their money in reliable banks can it be channelled from the idle rich to the industrious poor.”

Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition by Niall Ferguson
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