A New Book by Muhammad Yunus
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that.
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people 'mainly women' with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty.
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In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families. But Yunus remained unsatisfied. Much more could be done, he believed, if the dynamics of capitalism could be applied to humanity's greatest challenges.
Now, in Creating a World Without Poverty, Yunus goes beyond microcredit to pioneer the idea of social business a completely new way to use the creative vibrancy of business to tackle social problems from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education. This book describes how Yunus in partnership with some of the world's most visionary business leaders' has launched the world's first purposely designed social businesses. From collaborating with Danone to produce affordable, nutritious yogurt for malnourished children in Bangladesh to building eyecare hospitals that will save thousands of poor people from blindness, Creating a World Without Poverty offers a glimpse of the amazing future Yunus forecasts for a planet transformed by thousands of social businesses. Yunus 'Next Big Idea' offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism.
'By giving poor people the power to help themselves, Dr. Yunus has offered them something far more valuable than a plate of food security in its most fundamental form.'
- Former President Jimmy Carter
'Muhammad Yunus is a practical visionary who has improved the lives of millions of people in his native Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world.'
- Los Angeles Times
'[Yunus's] ideas have already had a great impact on the Third World, and...hearing his appeal for a 'poverty-free world' from the source itself can be as stirring as that all-American myth of bootstrap success.'
- The Washington Post
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Bloomberg - USA
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Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
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The Santa Barbara Independent - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
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Daily O'Collegian - Stillwater,OK,USA
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Literary Calendar 1/13
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
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Houston Chronicle - United States
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Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
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Houston Chronicle - United States
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Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
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Reuters - USA
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KSBY - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
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Boston Globe - United States
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The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
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Economist - UK
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Forbes - NY,USA
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Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
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Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
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Who's the host with the most?
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
The Colbert Report recently featured the irascible host grilling Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus over the perceived shortcomings of micro-credit, ...
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Doing Good Business
TIME - USA
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Scotsman - United Kingdom
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Earth & Sky - Austin,TX,USA
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Earth & Sky - Austin,TX,USA
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CSRwire.com (press release) - USA
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Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
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Prospect Magazine
April 2008 | 145
The Bangladeshi economist has helped millions by pioneering microcredit. Now he has a new idea 'social business' which he believes can eliminate world poverty
Mark Hannam
Mark Hannam used to be an investment manager. He is chair of Fair Finance, a microfinance company in London
Muhammad Yunus is a modest man with much to be immodest about. In the mid-1970s, he started providing small loans to the poor of Bangladesh and in 1983 he established a bank, which he called Grameen (“of the village†in Bengali). Grameen flourished, and now employs 25,000 people. Every year it lends over $500m in small loans, primarily to women. This “microcredit†model has been copied all over the developing world, and in 2006 Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Not content with setting up one business, Yunus has created a series of companies under the Grameen brand name to provide cheap goods and services to the poor: mobile phones, student loans, knitwear, a textile mill, an eye clinic and, most recently, a joint venture with the French company Danone to sell low-cost yoghurt to rural children. Yunus has also written a manifesto for his style of entrepreneurship, which he calls “social business.†This, he claims, will make it possible to put an end to world poverty, and on a shorter timescale than most people think achievable. It is, then, a very big idea, even if he is only partly right about the scale of the benefits involved.
Chosun Ilbo (largest Korean daily) . Published on 25 March. [PDF file]
Dear Mr. Yunus,
It is with great pleasure that I have finished today reading your book--"Creating a World Without Poverty." It was a surprise to see that you even have your mail in case someone wants to contact you.
I wanted to take the opportunity to send you a heart-felt thanks for bringing this fresh perspective to the way we should look into the world. Reading Sachs,Collier, or even Easterly, is really comforting because there is one common purpose, eradicating poverty, but your words have a little extra touch-- the great impact of your own actions.
It may also be so because you integrate different aspects, that some may consider disconnected, into one reality. The way you combine (i) a fully fledged market economy, (ii) a holistic view of human nature and (iii) technology advancement into one integrated view of how we all interact and develop society has been really reassuring, comforting.
Your approach is already proven and I hope the World Bank will truly embrace and support many of your initiatives.
I am always personally trying to bring the bright side of human nature to my friends and colleagues, not by sheer optimism, but because I have always believed that market economy--well understood--has unlimited potential if individuals embrace it with what it really means--providing their own services for both an economic and an emotional value (and people need to look deep inside of themselves to know what their services with added value really are!).
In addition--by pure enlightened self-interest--doing good to others and spreading peace and coexistence is the way to go forward; only then we will be in a true civilization (and a true market economy). Anyway, we are getting there, and you are really making it happen.
I will try to keep moving in the right direction!! I really like the idea of introducing´ways to shape the world´ in children's education. I may start exploring that avenue.
Again, thanks for the comfort, when reading you.
Best regards!!
Victor Esteban
