Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 11 mins)
By Muhammad Yunus
Narrated By Ray Porter
Whispersync for Voice-ready
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In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Believing that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a few, Yunus aimed to support that spark of personal initiative and enterprise by which the poor might lift themselves out of poverty forever. Grameen Bank now provides over $2.5 billion in micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh.
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"Will change the way you think about the economics."
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Yes, listened while driving to pick up my new small business.
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Turns the standard economic paradiams upside down starts over and changes lives. Adam Smith and Marx would both love it.
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