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

Yunus, Muhammad

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9780786157921: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

ISBN 10: 0786157925 ISBN 13: 9780786157921

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2007

The founder of the Grameen Bank relates how he developed the system of micro-credit to help eradicate poverty in countries such as Bangladesh by providing financial education and small loans to rural families.

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"�Yunus's ideas have already had a great impact on the Third World, and hearing his appeal for a poverty-free world from the source itself can be as stirring as that all-American myth of bootstrap success."

About the Author:

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.

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