Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives

Yunus, Muhammad

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9781433208386: Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives

ISBN 10: 1433208385 ISBN 13: 9781433208386

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2008

Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, his special program for microlending to the poor, were winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

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About the Author:

Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, which an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. He also received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2009 and was named one of Fortune's 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time in 2012.

Review:

"The influential economist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world."

-- "Bookseller (UK)"

"Muhammad Yunus argues convincingly that social business is an achievable way of exploiting capitalism to help the poor. Yunus moves the debate beyond the tired argument that the rich should simply donate to those less privileged, and demonstrates that the free market can in fact be used to the advantage of the less well off...This book is a must-read for policymakers or philanthropists, and its conversational style and straightforward logic also make it appealing to the layperson."

-- "Scotland on Sunday"

"In this excellent work of popular economics, he tells the story of how he came to the idea and the impressive results it has generated."

-- "Winnipeg Free Press"

"Infused with entrepreneurial spirit and the excitement of a worthy challenge, this book is the opposite of pessimistic recitals of intractable poverty's horrors."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

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