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Banker to the Poor

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Description for Banker to the Poor Paperback.
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Around the world, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781586481988
SKU
V9781586481988
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About Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of fourteen children, five of whom died in infancy, he was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became the head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing ... Read more

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