Creating a World without Poverty

Creating a World without Poverty

Subtitle: 
Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Author: 
Vunus, Muhammad
Weber, Karl
Place: 
Philadelphia
Publisher: 
Public Affairs
Phys descriptions: 
xvii, 282p., illustration
Date published: 
2007
Record type: 
ISBN: 
978-1-58648-667-9
Call No: 
364.662 YUN
Abstract: 

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? As founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad 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. 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. Yunu's "Next Big Idea" offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism.

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CITATION: Vunus, Muhammad. Creating a World without Poverty . Philadelphia : Public Affairs , 2007. - Available at: https://library.au.int/creating-world-without-poverty-3