Banker to the poor micro-lending and the battle against world poverty

Yunus, Muhammad

Banker to the poor micro-lending and the battle against world poverty - Blackstone 1999 - 6 CDs

Read by Ray Porter

In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a few, Grameen Bank now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are nearly 100 percent. It was an idea born on a day in 1976 when he loaned

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