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, micro-lending programs inspired by
Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs
established in the United States alone.
Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus''s memoir of how he decided
to change his life in order to help the world''s poor. In it he
traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to
fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and
poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding
Grameen. 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.
Muhammad Yunus was born in Bangladesh and earned his Ph.D. in
economics in the United States at Vanderbilt University, where he
was deeply influenced by the civil rights movement. He still lives
in Bangladesh, and travels widely around the world on behalf of
Grameen Bank and the concept of micro-credit.
目錄：
Introduction
1. Number 20 Boxirhat Road, Chittagong
2. A Bengali in America
3. Back in Chittagong
4. The Stool Makers of Jobra Village
5. A Pilot Project Is Born
6. Expanding Beyond Jobra into Tangail
7. A Bank for the Poor Is Born
8. Growth and Challenges for the Bank for the Poor, 1984-1990
9. Applications in Other Poor Countries
10. Applications in the United States and Other Wealthy
Countries
11. Grameen in the Nineties
12. Beyond Micro-credit:A New World of Grameen Enterprises
13. Grameen Bank H
14. The Future
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