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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