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Yunus, Muhammad

 
9781891620119: Banker To The Poor: Micro-lending And The Battle Against World Poverty
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ISBN 10 : 1891620118 ISBN 13 : 9781891620119
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Yunus Muhammad Yunus Mohammed

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Muhammad Yunus set up the Grameen Bank in his home country of Bangladesh with a loan of just [pound]17, to lend tiny amounts of money to the poorest of the poor - those to whom no ordinary bank would lend. Most of his customers - as they still are - were illiterate women, wanting to set up the smallest imaginable village enterprises. It was his conviction that this new system of 'micro-credit', lending even such small sums, would give such people the spark of initiative needed to pull themselves out of poverty. Today, Yunus's system of micro-credit is practised around the world in some 60 countries, including the US, Canada and France. His Grameen Bank is now a billion-pound business. It is acknowledged by world leaders and by the World Bank to be a fundamental weapon in the fight against poverty. Banker to the Poor is Yunus's enthralling story of how he did it: how the terrible famine in Bangladesh in 1974 focused his ideas on the need to enable its victims to grow more food; how he overcame the sceptics in many governments and among traditional economic thinking; and how he saw his micro-credit extended even outside the Third World into credit unions in the West. Such is the importance of his book that HRH the Prince of Wales has contributed a Foreword in which he hails 'a remarkable man [who] spoke the greatest good sense'.

Revue de presse

'An amazing account of the way in which one man with a vision and the right values can turn the established order on its ear' - John Elkington, Guardian; 'Not only does it read as swiftly as a thriller, it turns the dreary science of development economics inside out' - --Rosemary Righter, The Times

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Éditeur
PublicAffairs
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1891620118
ISBN 13 
9781891620119
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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