You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy
by Sullivan, Nicholas P
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Bangladeshi villagers sharing cell phones helped build what is now a thriving company with more than $200 million in annual profits. But what is the lesson for the rest of the world? This is a question author Nicholas P. Sullivan addresses in his tale of a new kind of entrepreneur, Iqbal Quadir, the visionary and catalyst behind the creation of GrameenPhone in Bangladesh. GrameenPhone--a partnership between Norway's Telenor and Grameen Bank, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize--defines a new approach to building business opportunities in the developing world. You Can Hear Me Now offers a compelling account of what Sullivan calls the "external combustion engine"--a combination of forces that is sparking economic growth and lifting people out of poverty in countries long dominated by aid-dependent governments. The "engine" comprises three forces: information technology, imported by native entrepreneurs trained in the West, backed by foreign investors.
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- You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy
- Author
- Sullivan, Nicholas P
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0787986097
- ISBN 13
- 9780787986094
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- Jossey-Bass
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
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