Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891620118 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kyle/Jasmine said impressed with the service. great quality, and quickly. Some substance, please Muhammed Yunus has worked tirelessly for the poorest of the poor. He has developed an enormously exciting new model for economic and social empowerment. He has expanded it to serve millions of people and give out billions of dollars in loans. His story is thrilling, even inspiring. How in the world can you criticize someone like that?Well, here's how.First and most importantly, you can scour through Banker to the Poor and not find anything concrete about wh. Lloyd J. Klapperich said Trust in the poor enough to help them.. This is the story of one man who extracted himself from economic theory long enough to see poverty in human terms, to trust in human beings, to form them into self-help units, to express that "trust" in economic terms and watch the seeds of faith grow into an international garden of success. In this garden today, grow the solutions to the world's most pressing problems. Now it is up to the rest of us to harvest crop.
Nothing in the economic theories I taught reflected the life around me." Armed with little more than a lofty dream to end the suffering around him, he started an experimental microcredit enterprise in 1977; by 1983 the Grameen Bank was officially formed. --Shawn Carkonen. In a short time, the women were able to repay the loans while continuing to support themselves and their families. But a famine in 1974 ravaged the country, leading Dr. Most of the Grameen Bank's loans are to women, and since its inception, there has been an astonishing loan repayment r
He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in "putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business. Around the world, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs established in the United States alone. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the eco