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Foreword by H.R H. The Prince of Wales xv
     
Part 1: BEGINNINGS 1940-76
    Jobra Village: from Textbook to Reality
    The World Bank, Washington, DC, November 1993
    20 Boxirhat Road, Chittagong
    Through the Viewfinder: Boyhood Passions
    Campus Years in the US, 1965-72
    Marriage and the War of Liberation, 1967-71
    Chittagong University, 1972-74
    Farming: the Three-Share Farm Experiment, 1974-76
    Banking: Climbing the Prison Walls of Collateral, 1976
     
Part II: EXPERIMENTAL PHASE 1976-78
    Who Lend to Women rather than to Men?
    Reaching Women Borrowers
    Women Bank Workers
    The Delivery System: the Mechanics of Joining
    The Repayment Mechanism: the World Upside Down
    A Comparison with Conventional Banks
    Grameen as an Experimental Branch of the Agricultural Bank, 1977-79
    Eid-Ul Fitr, 1977
     
PART III: CREATION 1978-90
    Taking our Time at the Start 1979-83
    Against the Mind-Set
    Natural Disasters: Our Other Enemies
    Training Grameen Staff
    Birth of Grameen as a Separate Corporate Entity, 1982-83
    Full Independence of the Bank, 1985-90
     
PART IV: REPLICATING THE GRAMEEN PRINCIPLE
    International Replications
    The US Urban Experience
    The US Rural Experience
     
PART V: PHILOSOPHY
    Discovering Economics: the Social Consciousness- Driven Free Market
    Self-Employment
    What Role for Educating and Training the Poor?
    On the Population Problem
    Poverty : the Missing Issue in Economics
     
PART VI: NEW HORIZONS 1990-97
    The Housing Loans: a Great Success Story
    Health and Retirement
    Grameen Check: Weavers are Back in Fashion
    Grameen Fisheries Foundation
    Grameen Phone: Technology for the Poor
    The Grameen Trust: the People’s Fund
     
PART VII: A NEW WORLD
    A World That Will Assist the Poorest
    World Micro-Credit Summit: to Reach 100 million by the Year 2005
    A Poverty-Free World: How and When?
    What Would it be Like?
     
Appendix I: A Look at the Balance Sheet
     
Appendix II: Analysis of Some of the Most Popular Grameen Loans
     
Appendix III: The Grameen Family of Companies
     
 
   
   
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