For decades Microcredit has been hailed as the #1 solution to eradicate poverty. But now it turns out that it's not. In December 2007, the Danish independent journalist and film maker, Tom Heinemann met with a woman by the name of Jahanara - living in a slum-like house two hours drive outside the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Shortly before she had sold her house to pay her weekly instalment's. For months, she had been intimidated, harassed and abused by the members of her loan group and by the loan officers from the various MFI's who had given her the loans. Two years later the film crew went back to investigate if Jahanara had succeeded getting out of poverty.

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