Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Yunus, Muhammad with Alan Jolis

ISBN 10: 1891620118 / ISBN 13: 9781891620119

Verlag: Public Affairs, New York, 1999

Beschreibung

SIGNED - Octavo. Ochre colored boards quarterbound in a blue backstrip with shiny gilt lettering and trim on the spine. Book has very light bumping at the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Bookplate on the upper edge of the free front endpaper reads "Compliments of Unitus / Thank you for your interest! / To get involved in the fight against / poverty and economic suffering / visit our website at ------------- / or give us a call at --- --- ----." Signed by the author and dated (20 March 2001) on the free front endpaper in blue pen. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 258 pages. Illustrated with a section of photographs in the center. Dust Jacket - has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the tail of the spine - jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. A lovely copy, unique with the author's signature.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010802

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
• Verlag: Public Affairs, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1891620118
• ISBN-13: 9781891620119
• Einband: Hard Cover
• Auflage: 3rd Printing.
• Zustand: NF
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: NF
• Signiert: Signed by the Author
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literary Nonfiction

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

The author discusses his efforts to help the poor in Bangladesh with micro-loans, which led to his establishing the Grameen Bank

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Muhammad Yunus in 1972 became the head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank.