Great Men and Women of Asia Series: The Man Who Believed in the Poor

Description A Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who founded the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. MUHAMMAD YUNUS received the 1984 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership. The Board of Trustees recognizes his enabling the neediest rural men and women to make themselves productive with sound group-managed credit. WRITTEN BY LIN ACACIO-FLORES ILLUSTRATED BY ROMMEL JOSON COPYRIGHT © 2007, 16 PAGES 8X 10 INCHES, COLORED ISBN 978-971-569-591-6