New Releases by Muhammad Yunus

Con Il banchiere dei poveri ha raccontato la storia straordinaria della fondazione della Grameen Bank e ha mostrato come il sistema del microcredito sia capace di sottrarre milioni di persone alla miseria e allo sfruttamento. Da allora ha esteso il raggio d’azione di Grameen dal campo strettamente finanziario a quelli dell’alimentazione, dell’educazione, dell’assistenza sanitaria, delle telecomunicazioni. Oggi il premio Nobel per la pace Muhammad Yunus è pronto per una nuova sfida: proporre quell’esperienza come un modello e un punto di riferimento per riuscire finalmente ad estirpare la piaga della povertà mondiale. La sfida si può vincere, secondo Yunus, con lo sviluppo e la diffusione del “business sociale”: un nuovo tipo di attività economica che ha di mira la realizzazione di obiettivi sociali anziché la massimizzazione del profitto. Non elemosina, dunque, né aiuti pubblici gestiti il più delle volte con criteri oscuri e inutili complessità burocratiche. Al contrario, il business sociale è una forma di iniziativa economica capace di attivare le dinamiche migliori del libero mercato, conciliandole però con l’aspirazione a un mondo più umano, più giusto, più pulito. Sembra un sogno a occhi aperti. Ma è un sogno che ha aiutato il Bangladesh quasi a dimezzare il suo tasso di povertà in poco più di trent’anni. E che comincia a coinvolgere multinazionali, fondazioni, banche, singoli imprenditori, organizzazioni no profit in ogni parte del mondo. Una rivoluzione sociale ed economica ancora silenziosa, ma che può rappresentare una speranza concreta di risolvere finalmente il problema più grave che affligge il mondo d’oggi: la povertà.

Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor,shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world''s biggest problems--a reminder that capitalism can take kindlier forms” (Spectator) Social business is a visionary new model for capitalism developed by Muhammad Yunus, the practical genius who pioneered microcredit and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to combat global poverty. Now social business, which harnesses the energy of capitalism to fulfill human needs rather than reward shareholders, is being adopted by leading corporations as well as entrepreneurs and social activists across Asia, South America, Europe, and the United States. Through examples of corporations such as BASF, Adidas, Danone, Uniqlo, and others, Building Social Business shows how an inspiring theory has become a world-altering practice, and offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own.

"The Qur''an has been interpreted by many scholars (Muslims and non-Muslims) for centuries, and many interpretive works presently in circulation are more or less similar in tone and contents. The "Essential Message of Islam," however, is a challenging book that stands apart from the traditional interpretive works. Evolved primarily by a computer-aided scrutiny of the Qur''anic text, the book provides an invaluable source that offers eye-opening and enlightening insights to the Muslims'' sacred Text, without any personal, sectarian, cultural or gender influences. The book removes any misconception about Muslim-Christian-Jewish relationships, presenting Islam as a ''Universal Religion'' that promotes a peaceful coexistence of people of all faiths. A must read book for all!" -- Publisher description.

Autobiography of a Bangladeshi helper of the poor.

Polemic on cigarettes from Islamic perspectives.

Ein Mann hat eine Vision und setzt sie in die Tat um ? gegen den Widerstand internationaler Entwicklungshilfe-Organisationen und mächtiger Banken. Muhammad Yunus, Wirtschaftsprofessor aus Bangladesch, einem der ärmsten Länder der Erde, hatte vor dreißig Jahren die revolutionäre Idee, Kleinstkredite ? oft nicht mehr als 25 Dollar ? an die Ärmsten der Armen zu vergeben und ihnen damit zu helfen, ihren Lebensunterhalt zu sichern. Die Kreditnehmer ? vorwiegend Frauen ? hatten nur eine Sicherheit zu bieten: ihre Ehre.Was für Banker ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit war, funktionierte: Alle vergebenen Kredite wurden in vollem Umfang zurückgezahlt. Heute ist die von Yunus gegründete Grameen-Bank weltberühmt. Sein Konzept wurde in mehr als hundert Staaten übernommen und hat bereits mehr als 6,6 Millionen Menschen in Entwicklungsländern oder Krisengebieten geholfen.Die packende Autobiographie von Muhammad Yunus, dem Bankier der Armen, der 2006 für sein Lebenswerk mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnet wurde, beweist, dass es eine erfolgreiche Strategie gegen Hunger und Armut in der Welt gibt.

Muhammad Yunus es el creador de los microcréditos, el innovador programa bancaespecialmente a las mujeres- pequeños préstamos que les permiten fundar modestas empresas y librar a sus familias de la pobreza. En los últimos treinta años, los microcréditos se han implantado en todos los continentes y han beneficiado a más de 100 millones de familias. No obstante, Yunus cree que todavía queda mucho por hacer. En Un mundo sin pobreza, Yunus va más allá de los microcréditos y lanza la idea de la empresa social, una forma totalmente nueva de emplear el dinamismo y la creatividad de las empresas para abordar problemas sociales, desde la pobreza y la contaminación hasta la sanidad y la educación. En este libro se explica cómo Yunus, junto a algunos de los líderes empresariales más innovadores del mundo, ha puesto en marcha las primeras empresas de carácter específicamente social. Desde la colaboración con Danone para producir yogures baratos y nutritivos para los niños de Bangladesh hasta la construcción de consultas oftalmológicas que librarán a miles de pobres de la ceguera. El libro ha supuesto el inicio de una oleada de proyectos sociales.

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus'' groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business -- 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 reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.

本书介绍了孟加拉经济学家尤努斯开发的一种叫做“格莱珉银行”的模式,通过小额贷款的形式向穷人、尤其是孟加拉的赤贫妇女提供少量资金,帮助她们用自己最擅长的方式提高生活的质量。

The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world. The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.

This unique biography of Alimqul Amir-i Lashkar, commander-in-chief of the Kokand army in 1863-1865 is devoted to the history of the Kokand khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

With reference to the evaluation of Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.

On the mass media in Indonesia; collection of speeches by the last Minister for Information.

Collection of interviews given by Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, to the national and foreign press in Bangladesh.

With special reference to Bangladesh.

Essays on development of rural banks of Bangladesh.