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Author:

Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-

Title:

Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty / Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis.

Publisher:

PublicAffairs,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

ix, 289 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., photos. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Yunus, Muhammad,--1940-
Grameen Bank--History.
Bankers--Bangladesh--Biography.
Social reformers--Bangladesh--Biography.
Microfinance--Bangladesh--History.
Rural poor--Bangladesh--History.

Other Authors:

Jolis, Alan.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: 1999. Includes index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1586481983
9781586481988

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)