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

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Overview

n 1983 Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miscule loans. He aimed to help the poor by supporting the spark of personal initiative and enterprise by which they could lift themselves out of poverty forever. It was an idea born on a day in 1976 when he loaned $27 from his own pocket to forty-two people living in a tiny village. They were stool makers who only needed enough credit to purchase the raw materials for their trade. Yunus's loan helped them break the cycle of poverty and changed their lives forever. His solution to world poverty, founded on the belief that credit is a fundamental human right, is brilliantly simple: loan poor people money on terms that are suitable to them, teach them a few sound financial principles, and they will help themselves.Yunus's theories work. Grameen Bank has provided 3.8 billion dollars to 2.4 million families in rural Bangladesh. Today, more than 250 institutions in nearly 100 countries operate micro-credit programs based on the Grameen methodology, placing Grameen at the forefront of a burgeoning world movement toward eradicating poverty through micro-lending

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An interesting story of beginning and hope . . . I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the problem of poverty . . .
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... Lays out a convincing argument from the need to nourish and better understand the 'people's economy'...A hopeful and inspiring read

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781586481988
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs
  • Publication date: 10/7/2003
  • Pages: 312
  • Sales rank: 101,109
  • Lexile: 1090L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Muhammad Yunus
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 director of the Grameen Bank.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Number 20 Boxirbat Road, Chittagong 1
2 A Bengali in America 13
3 Back in Chittagong 31
4 The Stool Makers of Jobra Village 43
5 A Pilot Project Is Born 59
6 Expanding Beyond Jobra into Tangail 85
7 A Bank for the Poor Is Born 115
8 Growth and Chllenges for the Bank for the Poor, 1984-1990 131
9 Applications in Other Poor Countries 153
10 Applications in the United States and Other Wealthy Countries 173
11 Grameen in the Nineties 193
12 Beyond Micro-credit: A New World of Grameen Enterprises 213
13 Grameen Bank II 233
14 The Future 245
For Further Information 263
Index 265
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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 16, 2008

    Great Book

    This was a wonderful and inspiring book. It makes you believe that there are answers for the world problems. It also was very captivating. I don't read much nonfiction, but plan on reading more now. I would highly recommend this book to anyone. You can¿t complain about the world¿s problem if you aren¿t making an effort to change them. Here is a man that is changing the world.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 27, 2007

    Concise, clear, powerful

    Yunus writes in a concise, clear style. Read this book for the concepts and ideas - Yunus provides a wonderful overview of microcredit and its impact on thousands of the world's poorest women. Inspiring introduction to microcredit and to this modern economic genius who refused to take no for an answer.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 21, 2007

    Illuminating saga of Nobel-winning microcredit hero

    In 1974, while Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics in Bangladesh, the country was ravaged by famine. Increasingly uncomfortable teaching abstract theories while starving people shuffled by outside his classroom, Yunus realized his economic education was incomplete. To complete it, he went to local villages to 'learn from the poor' about what they actually needed rather than what a textbook said they should have. The answer was credit, so Yunus founded a bank to provide it - Grameen Bank. The name means the 'bank of the village.' Today, Yunus is a Nobel Peace Price winner and Grameen Bank has extended credit to more than 2.6 million people. This down-to-earth, unsentimental autobiography recounts what inspired him, the obstacles he overcame and the ultimate success of this project, his life's work. We highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know how one person's efforts can have a huge impact.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 20, 2007

    Compulsory reading!

    This book eloquently describes the political and economic systems that keep the poor impoverished ¿ and it describes the problems encountered in solving the problem. Muhammad Yunus is an inspirational, compassionate, intelligent role model who has lived and `walked his talk¿ in every way. I think this book should be compulsory reading for every senior school student born into a privileged, first world country. The fourteen-year old who whines for more pocket money would do well to understand and respect how it is for those born less fortunate - and we may benefit from their increased social awareness.

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  • Posted July 21, 2010

    Inspiring real life story which tells you how one can make a BIG difference once you set your mind on doing something.

    There are many people who conceptualise & write theories about the problems faced by the world. But there are very few academics who actually can claim to have done somthing about it. This is truly an inspiring story of the founder of Grameen Bank, his tough childhood, evolution thru his education in East Pakistan & in the US and finally return to his roots when a fledgling new country was founded, namely Bangladesh. The description on the start of a new concept & the efforts put in by Muhammad to create a micro-credit organisation are a testimony of the fact that almost anything can be achieved if you set your mind to it. The amazing success of this concept & the Grameen imitators which have started up across the world make for very interesting reading too. Hat's off to someone who could achieve so much in his own lifetime.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 13, 2000

    A Long March to End Global Poverty?

    With a rare sense of moral indignation coupled with analytical clarity, Prof. Yunus of Bangladesh set out to eradicate worldwide poverty. That was back in 1976. Starting out with a personal mini-loan of $27 to 42 impoverished villagers, his Grameen('of the village') Bank has now extended over a billion dollars of loans to 2 million borrowers, and with a repayment rate of over 98%! This stunning record has stood traditional development economists on their heads. Even more provocative, Yunus believes in the promotion of a 'socially-conscious driven private sector.' A short review of Banker to the Poor can hardly do justice to this stimulating and well-wriiten book. (Some of his pithy anecdotes & scathing crtiques of mainstream capitalist economics alone are well worth the book's list price of $24.) If the long march of ten thousand li begins with the first step, then reading this motivational life story must be happy trails for those pioneers aspiring to a new collective economy of the 21st century.

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