Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Muhammad Yunus; Alan Jolis [Contributor]

ISBN 10: 1586481983 / ISBN 13: 9781586481988

Editore: PublicAffairs, 2008

Codice articolo 1586481983-4-19267267

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The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.

Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world.

The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.

Informazioni sugli autori: Muhammad Yunus was born in Bangladesh and earned his Ph.D. in economics in the United States at Vanderbilt University, where he was deeply influenced by the civil rights movement. He is the author of Creating a World Without Poverty, Building Social Business, and A World of Three Zeros. The recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he still lives in Bangladesh, and travels widely around the world on behalf of Grameen and the concept of micro-credit.

Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank and more than fifty other companies in Bangladesh. He is widely known as both the father of microcredit and of the social business movement. In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He is one of only seven individuals to have received the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. Yunus is the recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees from universities in twenty countries, and has received 112 awards from twenty-six countries, including state honors from ten countries.

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Titolo: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the ...
Casa editrice: PublicAffairs
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fair