E-audiobook
Banker to the poor micro-lending and the battle against world poverty
Record details
- ISBN: 1433280329 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9781433280320 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
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remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 7:11:41. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Ray Porter. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 103403 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Grameen Bank -- History Yunus, Muhammad -- 1940- Economists -- Bangladesh -- Biography Rural poor -- Bangladesh -- History Microfinance -- Bangladesh -- History |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a few, Grameen Bank 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 nearly 100 percent. It was an idea born on a day in 1976 when he loaned $27 from his own pocket to forty-two stool makers living in a tiny village. Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he changed his life to help the world's poor. In it he traces the journey that led him to rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor and recounts the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen.
