Alan Jolis
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system, no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking, microcredit,...