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Banker to the poor : micro-lending and the battle against world poverty /

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The founder of the Grameen Bank relates how he developed the system of micro-credit to help eradicate poverty in countries such as Bangladesh by providing financial education and small loans to rural families.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yunus, Muhammad, 1940- (Author)
Other Authors: Jolis, Alan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, 2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Grameen Bank > History.
Yunus, Muhammad, > 1940-
Grameen Bank.
Economists > Bangladesh > Biography.
Rural poor > Bangladesh > History.
Microfinance > Bangladesh > History.
Économistes > Bangladesh > Biographies.
Pauvres en milieu rural > Bangladesh > Histoire.
Economists.
Microfinance.
Rural poor.
Bangladesh.
Biographies.
History.
Table of 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.