Muhammad Yunus

Creating a World without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
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While free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including spiritual, social, and altruistic.Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in an economic and social revolution that is already underway and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.

Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus has launched one of the most spectacular revolutions in the world of finance and banking, bringing not only economic hope to the rural poor, but a social revolution in how the poor are treated by society. This book tells the story.'

Charlie Rose with Muhammad Yunus (June 4, 2004)
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An hour with Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and Author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. Yunus discusses his innovative strategies for distributing investments to the poor and the outlook for confronting global poverty in the 21st century.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Pathways to Women?s Empowerment: How Nobel Prize Winner Grameen Bank and Muhammad Yunus Are Changing the Rural Bangladesh
$101.00
This book is the outcome of Naz?s field study on the role of Nobel Peace Prize winning Grameen Bank?s microcredit programme in changing the life patterns of rural Bangladeshi women. She focussed particularly on a remote south-western rural area in Bangladesh (Monigram union) and explored the impact of microcredit on poor women. This study is a first hand account of Nobel Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus? unique Grameen Bank and what it is doing for the rural poor women. Naz in this study has not evaluated Grameen Bank?s policy on loan disbursement; rather she sheds light on the effect of collateral free Grameen microcredit on the daily life patterns of borrower ladies of Monigram who has been treated as chattels in their in-laws? houses and faced tremendous challenges in their already struggled path of development. Empowerment, to Naz, should always be considered in the particular contextual sense and this book offers a new light on the notion of empowerment through which women?s position in any third world country can be assessed. This book will be valuable for those who are interested in women, gender and development studies.