Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Yunus, Muhammad; Jolis, Alan
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9781891620119
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New York: PublicAffairs. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. Slightly bumped corners. Protected in a removable archival cover. . 258 pages. The remarkable life story of one visionary economist and his simple but revolutionary tool to end world poverty: micro-credit. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Around the world, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs established in the United States alone. Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in "putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, <I>Banker to the Poor</I> is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business. 8 pp. photos. .
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- Title
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
- Author
- Yunus, Muhammad; Jolis, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1891620118
- ISBN 13
- 9781891620119
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- BUSINESS, ECONOMICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business & Economics;
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