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Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
by Muhammad Yunus. December 2007

“The world of social business is one where the individual is concerned with more than profit alone. But how can free-market, capitalist principles be applied to concerns such as poverty, homelessness and protecting the planet, within...”
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus. October 2003

It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Professor Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make and sell stools...
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The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story (Paperback)
by Asif Dowla, Dipal Barua. November  2006

The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II story" is a good way to begin study of the growing institution of microcredit and the assumption that there is financial potential among the poorest of the poor.
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Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective
by Joanna Ledgerwood. October 1998

"It has been estimated that there are 500 million economically active poor people in the world operating microenterprises and small businesses (Women's World Banking 1995)..."
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Charlie Rose with Muhammad Yunus
November 2006

A conversation with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus about his advances in the microfinance movement, which will benefit more than 100 million people in more than 100 countries. 
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