The price of a dream : the story of the Grameen Bank and the idea that is helping the poor to change their lives

This book is the compelling story of the Grameen Bank, one of the most successful development organizations in the world. Founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh in 1976, the Grameen Bank has extended small loans for self-employment to more than two million women villagers and has helped lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. Grameen Bank's trickle up approach has inspired the creation of hundreds of micro-credit programs around the world and helped to reshape international development policy.This book is so well written, and so packed with stories that no one will believe that it is a treatise on development economics. story of the Grameen Bank has never been better told. It should be compulsory reading in every development agency,…