Banker to the poor
Subtitle: micro-lending and the battle against world poverty
By: Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis.
Contributors: Jolis, Alan.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781586481988
Subjects: Yunus, Muhammad, -- 1940-; Grameen Bank -- History; Bankers -- Bangladesh -- Biography; Social reformers -- Bangladesh -- Biography; Microfinance -- Bangladesh -- History; Rural poor -- Bangladesh -- History
Genres: Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: 1999.

Includes index.

2006 Nobel Peace Prize: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank.
Table of contents: title: Number 20 Boxirbat Road, Chittagong; title: A Bengali in America; title: Back in Chittangong; title: The stool makers of Jobra Village; title: A pilot project is born; title: Expanding beyond Jobra into Tangail; title: A bank for the poor is born; title: Growth and challenges for the bank for the poor, 1984-1990; title: Applications in other poor countries; title: Applications in the United States and other wealthy countries; title: Grameen in the nineties; title: Beyond micro-credit: a new world of Grameen enterprises; title: Grameen Bank II; title: The future; title: A preview of creating a world without poverty.