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Creating a World without Poverty Muhammad Yunus

Creating a World without Poverty By Muhammad Yunus

Creating a World without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus


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Summary

Free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. This book tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social business.

Creating a World without Poverty Summary

Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism 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.

Creating a World without Poverty Reviews

"An amazing account of the way in which one man with a vision and the right values can turn the established order on its ear." The Guardian "Not only does it read as swiftly as a thriller, it turns the dreary science of development economics inside out." The Times"

About Muhammad Yunus

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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GOR002022232
9781586484934
1586484931
Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
Used - Very Good
Hardback
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
2008-01-07
296
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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