Banker to the Poor - Couverture souple

Yunus, Muhammad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143102915 ISBN 13 : 9780143102915

Editeur : Penguin Books India, 2007

Synopsis

‘It’s not people who aren’t credit-worthy. Its banks that isn’t people-worthy’ —Muhammad Yunus. Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, set up the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh to lend tiny sums to the poorest of the poor, who were shunned by ordinary banks. The money would enable them to set up the smallest village enterprise and pull themselves out of poverty. Today, Yunus’s system of ‘micro-credit’ is practised in some sixty countries, and his Grameen Bank is a billion-pound business acknowledged by world leaders and the World Bank as a fundamental weapon in the fight against poverty. Banker to the Poor is Yunus’s own enthralling story: of how Bangladesh’s terrible 1974 famine underlined the need to enable its victims to grow more food; of overcoming skepticism in many governments and in traditional economic thinking; and of how micro-credit was extended into credit unions in the West.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

<span>Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh. In 1997 he led the world's first Micro-Credit Summit in Washington DC.</span>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books India
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143102915
• ISBN 13: 9780143102915
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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