Creating a World Without Poverty

by Yunus, Muhammad

• ISBN13: 9781586486679
• ISBN10: 1586486675
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-06
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus' groundbreaking sequel toBanker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social businessbusiness 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 Povertyreveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.

Author Biography

Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen Bank were the recipients of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Starting with a Handshake	p. ix
The Promise of Social Business
A New Kind of Business	p. 3
Social Business: What It Is and What It Is Not	p. 21
The Grameen Experiment
The Microcredit Revolution	p. 43
From Microcredit to Social Business	p. 77
The Battle against Poverty: Bangladesh and Beyond	p. 103
God Is in the Details	p. 129
One Cup of Yogurt at a Time	p. 149
A World Without Poverty
Broadening the Marketplace	p. 165
Information Technology, Globalization, and a Transformed World	p. 187
Hazards of Prosperity	p. 203
Putting Poverty in Museums	p. 223
Epilogue: "Poverty Is a Threat to Peace"-The Nobel Prize Lecture	p. 235
Afterword: Update-Spreading the Message of Social Business	p. 249
For Further Information	p. 263
Index	p. 265
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