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

Yunus, Muhammad, Yunus, Mohammed

ISBN 10: 1891620118 / ISBN 13: 9781891620119

Edité par PublicAffairs, 1999

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• Titre: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1891620118
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781891620119
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: New

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Book by Yunus Muhammad Yunus Mohammed

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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'.