Banker to the Poor
Banker to the Poor Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing…
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Banker to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world.
Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Around the world, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs established in the United States alone.Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor.
In it he traces the
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