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Book: Creating
A World Without Poverty
Author:
Dr. Muhammad Yunus to Speak at GWU's Lisner
Auditorium
in DC
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
ON FEBRUARY 4 at 7 pm, PLEASE JOIN HOOKSBOOKEVENTS when it welcomes 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus for a special evening event at the Lisner Auditorium on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Yunus will be speaking about his latest book, “Creating a World Without Poverty.”
This event is open to the public. Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster. Note: A portion of the proceeds from the sale of book for this event will benefit Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Foundation — an organization that combines the power of microfinance, technology and innovative solutions to defeat global poverty.
About Dr. Muhammad Yunus
A native of Bangladesh, Dr. Yunus was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Grameen Foundation. Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
About the book
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.
In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet.
Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus’s own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way—and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.
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