Banker to the Poor
by Yunus, MuhammadFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-10-16
Publisher(s): HACHETTE
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Summary
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize This autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty--micro-credit--has become the classic text for a growing movement
Author Biography
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of fourteen children, five of whom died in infancy, he was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became the head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Number 20 Boxirbat Road, Chittagong | p. 1 |
| A Bengali in America | p. 13 |
| Back in Chittagong | p. 31 |
| The Stool Makers of Jobra Village | p. 43 |
| A Pilot Project Is Born | p. 59 |
| Expanding Beyond Jobra into Tangail | p. 85 |
| A Bank for the Poor Is Born | p. 115 |
| Growth and Chllenges for the Bank for the Poor, 1984-1990 | p. 131 |
| Applications in Other Poor Countries | p. 153 |
| Applications in the United States and Other Wealthy Countries | p. 173 |
| Grameen in the Nineties | p. 193 |
| Beyond Micro-credit: A New World of Grameen Enterprises | p. 213 |
| Grameen Bank II | p. 233 |
| The Future | p. 245 |
| For Further Information | p. 263 |
| Index | p. 265 |
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