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Helping poor community members start small businesses is a daunting project. Many micro-enterprise projects are faced with project participants who can't read, who can't add and subtract, who have no startup capital, have no products to sell or services to offer, and have no visible markets to approach. And yet this is what many in the developing world feel is the key to economic development.

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