Book Review By

Nabanita Mukherjee 1020348 Section : D

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Bengal Province of Bangladesh. Completed his BA and MA in economics from Dhaka University and Ph.D from Vanderbilt University, US. Started the Grameen Bank, Bank for the Poor, in 1983. In 2006 won the Noble Peace Prize for Peace In March 2006 worlds first social business Grameen Danone came into existence as visioned by the author.
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SUMMARY
Creating a World Without Poverty tells the story of worlds first Social business Grameen Donone, a joint venture between Grameen Group and Groupe Donone to produce affordable,nutritious yogurt for malnourished children of Bangladesh including the establishment and journey Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under wayand in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by social business.

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CONTENTS
Starting with a handshake The Promise of Social Business
1 - A New Kind of Business 2 - Social Business: What It Is and What It Is Not

The Grameen Experiment

3 - The Microcredit Revolution 4 From Microcredit to Social Business 5 The Battle Against Poverty 6 God Is in the Details 7 One cup of Yogurt at a Time

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 A World Without Poverty

8 - Broadening the Marketplace 9 - Information Technology, Globalization, and a Transformed World 10 - Hazards of Prosperity 11 - Putting Poverty in Museums

Epilogue: Poverty Is a Threat to PeaceThe Nobel Price Lecture

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STYLE
The style of writing is very simple. Language is easy to grasp with no complicated words. The entire book is in a narrative style where the author narrates everything right from the starting, How Grameen Bank was started to his vision of seeing poverty only in Museums around the world.

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THEME

The main theme of this book is how social business can make the world free of poverty. The author starts with the establishment of Grameen Bank and how it has brought changes in life of Bangladeshis. Then he talks about the First Social Business in world GRAMEEN DONONE And explains how social businesses can make major difference in this world.

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CHARACTERS
The three main characters of this book without whom the concept of social business would have never turned into a reality. Muhammad Yunus Franck Ribound

All the people of Bangladesh

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The other characters in this book are: Emmanuel Faber Guy Gavelle People working in Grameen Group & Groupe Danone Zinedane Zidane

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CRITICISM
The book is on social business almost half the book discusses about Grameen Bank and other Grameen companies. People already know about Grameen Bank. Could have shortened the first half and should have restricted more to social business.

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THANK YOU !!!

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