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Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank

Muhammad Yunus set up the Grameen Bank in his home country of Bangladesh with a loan of just [pound]17, to lend tiny amounts of money to the poorest of the poor – those to whom no ordinary bank would lend. Most of his customers – as they still are – were illiterate women, wanting to set up the smallest imaginable village enterprises. It was his conviction that this new system of `micro-credit`, lending even such small sums, would give such people the spark of initiative needed to pull themselves out of poverty. Today, Yunus`s system of micro-credit is practised around the world in some 60 countries, including the US, Canada and France. His Grameen Bank is now a billion-pound business. It is acknowledged by world leaders and by the World Bank to be a fundamental weapon in the fight against poverty. Banker to the Poor is Yunus`s enthralling story of how he did it: how the terrible famine in Bangladesh in 1974 focused his ideas on the need to enable its victims to grow more food; how he overcame the sceptics in many governments and among traditional economic thinking; and how he saw his micro-credit extended even outside the Third World into credit unions in the West. Such is the importance of his book that HRH the Prince of Wales has contributed a Foreword in which he hails `a remarkable man [who] spoke the greatest good sense`.

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