A biography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending.
Now in paperback Growing up in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus witnessed extreme poverty all around and was determined to eradicate it.
In 1976, as an Economics professor, Muhammad met a young craftswoman in the village of Jobra who needed to borrow five taka (twenty-two cents) to buy materials.
No bank would l.
Lee & Low Books Twenty-two cents: muhammad yunus and the village bank, paperback/paula yoo
