Creating a World without Poverty
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Creating a World without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world - and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, 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 Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social business, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way - and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.
An amazing account of the way in which one man with a vision and the right values can turn the established order on its earThe Guardian Not only does it read as swiftly as a thriller, it turns the dreary science of development economics inside out. The Times
About the author: Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and studied economics at Vanderbilt University, USA. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He 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 are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781586484934 |
| ISBN 10 | 1586484931 |
| Title | Creating a World without Poverty |
| Author | Muhammad Yunus |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Year published | 2008-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
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