Create a world without poverty

What if we could channel the full power of the free market to solve problems like poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it will sound impossible. But that is exactly what Muhammad Yunus is doing. Founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative financial program that grants the poor – especially women – small loans that they then use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. Over the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent, benefiting over 100 million families. But Yunus was not satisfied. The author believed that much more could be done if the dynamics of capitalism could be applied to humanity's greatest challenges.
Now, in Creating a World Without Poverty, Yunus goes beyond microcredit, launching the idea of social business – a completely new formula, which aims to use vibrant entrepreneurial creativity to tackle social problems – from poverty and pollution to non-existent medical care and lack of education.
This book describes how Yunus – in partnership with some of the world's most visionary business leaders – launched the world's first exclusively social businesses. From collaborating with Danone to produce nutritious and affordable yogurts for malnourished children in Bangladesh, to building eye hospitals that will save thousands of poor people from blindness, Creating a World Without Poverty gives us a glimpse into the extraordinary future envisioned by Yunus for a planet transformed by thousands of social businesses. Yunus's latest idea offers us the pioneering model of a new and more humane form of capitalism.