Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty /

Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-

Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty / Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis. - New York : PublicAffairs, c2007. - ix, 289 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: 1999. Includes index.

Number 20 Boxirbat Road, Chittagong -- A Bengali in America -- Back in Chittangong -- The stool makers of Jobra Village -- A pilot project is born -- Expanding beyond Jobra into Tangail -- A bank for the poor is born -- Growth and challenges for the bank for the poor, 1984-1990 -- Applications in other poor countries -- Applications in the United States and other wealthy countries -- Grameen in the nineties -- Beyond micro-credit: a new world of Grameen enterprises -- Grameen Bank II -- The future -- A preview of creating a world without poverty.

2006 Nobel Peace Prize: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank.

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Grameen Bank--History.


Bankers--Bangladesh--Biography.
Social reformers--Bangladesh--Biography.
Microfinance--History.--Bangladesh
Rural poor--History.--Bangladesh

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