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The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank
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Author
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David Bornstein.
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Publisher
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Oxford
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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9.2
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6.2
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1.1
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ISBN
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9780195187496
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Pages/Publication Date
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370/2005
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Daedalus Item Code
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90116
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Described by its founder, Muhammad Yunus, as a "socially conscious capitalist enterprise," the much-lauded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh seems to be one of the Third World's brightest success stories. By viewing poor people as potential entrepreneurs, the bank has helped village people, especially women, to better their lives in small but significant ways. Offering loans as small as $5, the Grameen Bank nonetheless turned a profit and now has more than 1,000 branches throughout Bangladesh. David Bornstein interviews Yunus, bank employees, and villagers to write a history that is also an optimistic prognosis for other impoverished nations.
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