MicroLending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
Recommended by The Barefoot Investor and Hugh Jackman
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See customer reviews on Amazon →First-person, anecdote-rich narrative that follows Yunus and the early Grameen Bank experiments, mixing operational detail with portraits of borrowers and grassroots problem-solving. Useful for getting a tangible sense of how microloans were delivered, the group-lending mechanics, and the personal conviction that drove the project. Limitation: recurring anecdotes and a consistently optimistic, sometimes polemical tone mean the book glosses over hard quantitative critique and can feel repetitive; readers wanting systematic, data-heavy evaluation will find it thin.
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Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human...
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