{"product_id":"banker-to-the-poor-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Banker to the Poor (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYUNUS, Muhammad.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full green leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 289 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: PublicAffairs, 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMuhammad Yunus (b. 1940) was born in Chittagong, then part of British India, studied economics at Dhaka University, and came to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship, completing his doctorate at Vanderbilt University in 1969. He returned to Bangladesh and in 1972 became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. In 1974, during a catastrophic famine that killed hundreds of thousands, he found himself teaching elegant economic theories to students in a country where people were dying of hunger outside the classroom window. The collision between his academic training and this reality redirected the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn 1976, Yunus visited the village of Jobra near Chittagong and met a woman who made bamboo stools for a living. She needed the equivalent of twenty-two cents to buy the bamboo she required for a day's work; without it she was forced to borrow from a trader at rates that ensured she would never escape debt. Yunus lent twenty-seven dollars of his own money to forty-two villagers in similar situations. Every loan was repaid. The experiment became a pilot project, the pilot project became Grameen Bank, and Grameen Bank — formally established in 1983 against the advice of every financial and governmental authority Yunus approached — became one of the most significant institutional innovations in the history of economic development. It now provides billions of dollars in micro-loans to millions of families in Bangladesh, 94 per cent of them women, with repayment rates approaching 100 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBanker to the Poor\u003c\/em\u003e is Yunus's own account of how he arrived at the idea of micro-credit and how he built the institution that proved it could work. It is simultaneously a memoir, an economic argument, and a meditation on the relationship between poverty and the systemic failures of conventional banking — which proceeds, as Yunus observed, on the assumption that poor people are not creditworthy, an assumption that Grameen Bank has spent four decades disproving. The \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e described it as \"well-reasoned yet passionate\"; the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"stirring.\" In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000526\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muhummad Yunus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49072514367731,"sku":"1110002990519","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_d5765ca3-f76d-4db8-aac2-739a8e245d6b.png?v=1779087667","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/banker-to-the-poor-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}