CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY


Author :  Dr. Muhammad Yunus


Muhammad Yunus was born in
Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The
third of fourteen children, he was educated
at Dhaka University and was awarded a
Fulbright scholarship to study economics at
Vanderbilt University. He then served as
chairman of the economics department at
Chittagong University before devoting his life
to providing financial and social services to
the poorest of the poor. He is the founder and
managing director of Grameen Bank and the
author of the bestselling Banker to the Poor.
Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the
2006 Nobel Peace Prize.


Publisher : PublicAffairs

Published Year : 2007

ISBN 13 : 978-1-58648-493-4

ISBN 10 : 1-58648-493-1

Size : 4.5 MB



CONTENTS

PART I: THE PROMISE OF SOCIAL BUSINESS


  • A New Kind of Business 
  • Social Business: What It Isand What It Is Not 21

PART II: THE GRAMEEN EXPERIMENT


  • The Microcredit Revolution
  • From Microcredit to Social Business
  • The Battle against Poverty:Bangladesh and Beyond 103
  • God Is in the Details
  • One Cup of Yogurt at a Time 149

PART III: A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY


  • Broadening the Marketplace
  • Information Technology, Globalization,and a Transformed World
  • Hazards of Prosperity
  • Putting Poverty in Museums
  • Epilogue: "Poverty Is a Threat to Peace"—The Nobel Prize Lecture

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