Banker to the Poor: Autobiographical Account - Couverture rigide

Yunus, Mohammad; Jolis, Alan

 
9789840514670: Banker to the Poor: Autobiographical Account
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9840514679 ISBN 13 : 9789840514670
Editeur : University Press Ltd ,Bangladesh, 2002

Synopsis

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'.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University Press Ltd ,Bangladesh
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9840514679
ISBN 13 
9789840514670
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781854105776: Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Mohammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1854105779 ISBN 13 :  9781854105776
Editeur : Aurum Press, 1998
Couverture rigide