Synopses & Reviews
This book is the compelling story of the Grameen Bank, one of the most successful development organizations in the world. Founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh in 1976, the Grameen Bank has extended small loans for self-employment to more than two million women villagers and has helped lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. The Grameen Bank's "trickle up" approach has inspired the creation of hundreds of "micro-credit" programs around the world and helped to reshape international development policy.
"If there is one man who has achieved stardom of sorts at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women [September 1995], it is [Muhammad Yunus] who wandered into a desperately poor village . . . and got an idea that is changing the face of banking."—New York Times
Synopsis
This book is the compelling story of the Grameen Bank, one of the most successful development organizations in the world. Founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh in 1976, the Grameen Bank has extended small loans for self-employment to more than two million women villagers and has helped lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. The Grameen Bank's "trickle up" approach has inspired the creation of hundreds of "micro-credit" programs around the world and helped to reshape international development policy.
"If there is one man who has achieved stardom of sorts at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women [September 1995], it is [Muhammad Yunus] who wandered into a desperately poor village . . . and got an idea that is changing the face of banking."—New York Times
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents
Prologue: This Business of Bangles
Introduction
Part I - The Idea
1. Fairy Tales
2. 856 Takas
3. Social Collateral
4. It Cannot Be Done
5. He Found You Under a Tree?
6. If You Want to Convince Us
Part II - The Villagers
7. Water Upon Land
8. It's All on Trust
9. Stirring the Money
10. Sabina Yasmin
11. The Center Meeting
12. It's Their Problem
13. Can You Walk Far?
14. A Petticoat
Part III - The Organization
15. We Don't Want Windows
16. Independence
17. A New Culture
18. A Natural and Better Fighter
19. If a Big Dam Breaks
20. This Is Her Factory
21. A Conversation
22. Peace of Mind
23. It Was Like a Fish Market
24. Little Checks and Big Checks
Part IV - The System
25. Laying the Foundation
26. I'm Not a Woman Anymore
27. The Logic of Grameen
28. Begum Rokeya
29. The Death of Ali Haider
30. Don't Think of These Things?
31. The Wisdom in Smallness
32. Armed with Information
Part V - The World
33. Credit as a Human Right
34. How Can You Go On with a Situation Like This?
35. An Expensive Way to Transfer Technology
36. A Risk Taker
37. A Great Strategizer
38. An Intensive Care Unit
39. Two Cyclones
40. If I Had to Become a Businesswoman
41. Oirashi's Final House
Part VI - The Future
42. The Golden Boat
43. One Thousand Doctors
44. The Luck of Manijira
45. An Infinite Amount of Work
46. She Turned Her Face to the Light
47. Struck by Lightning
48. The Price of the American Dream
49. Sociall Conscious Capitalism
50. Everywhere You Look
Interest
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Afterword
Index