Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank - Mohammad Yunus

When Mohammed Yunas returned to his native Bangladesh from the US, where he had gone to study, he took up a position in university as an economics professor. He could than have lived comfortably and remained in blissful ignorance of the poverty around him but, as he had already proved several times, he was simply not the kind of person to accept injustice. Rather, he was the kind of person who looked, learned and acted to change what he saw. A walk through a neighbouring village revealed to him the immense poverty that surrounded him every day and, instead of returning to his classroom, where he could teach theories and ideas that clearly weren't working, he ...  Read the complete review