Desmond, Matthew
Summary: "The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 DesmondYunus, Muhammad
Contents: Prologue : starting with a handshake -- The promise of social business -- A new kind of business -- Social business : what it is and what it is not -- The Grameen experiment -- The microcredit revolution -- From microcredit to social business -- The battle against poverty : Bangladesh and beyond -- God is in the details -- One cup of yogurt a a time -- A world without poverty -- Broadening the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2007