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Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism /

Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism /
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338.7 YUN
Society Non Fiction   Tuggerah Library . . Available .  
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Author Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-
Title Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism / Muhammad Yunus With Karl Weber.
Edition 1st ed.
Published New York :
PublicAffairs,
2007.,
Description xvii, 261 p. [8] leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note Includes index.
Summary "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 Prizewinner 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. In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families."
"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's "Next Big Idea" offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents Prologue : starting with a handshake -- The promise of social business -- A new kind of business -- Social businesswhat it is and what it is not -- The grameen experiment -- The microcredit revolution -- From microcredit to social business -- The battle against poverty : Bangladesh and beyond -- The grameen danone story : god is in the details -- The grameen danone story : from dream to reality -- A world without poverty -- Broadening the marketplace : how social business will -- Transform the capitalist system -- Information technology, globalization, and a transformed -- World -- Hazards of prosperity : social business and the growth -- Dilemma -- Putting poverty in a museum -- Epilogue: poverty is a threat to peace - the nobel prize lecture -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subjects Social responsibility of business
Industries -- Social aspects
Poverty -- Prevention.
Additional Author Weber, Karl
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See Also http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007034545-d.html
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