You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor To the Global Economy
- ISBN-10
- 0787994634
- ISBN-13
- 9780787994631
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-03-07
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Nicholas P. Sullivan
Description
Bangladeshi villagers sharing cell phones helped build what is nowa thriving company with more than $200 million in annual profits.But what is the lesson for the rest of the world? This is aquestion author Nicholas P. Sullivan addresses in his tale of a newkind of entrepreneur, Iqbal Quadir, the visionary and catalystbehind the creation of GrameenPhone in Bangladesh. GrameenPhone—a partnership between Norway's Telenor andGrameen Bank, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize—definesa new approach to building business opportunities in the developingworld. You Can Hear Me Now offers a compelling account ofwhat Sullivan calls the "external combustion engine"—acombination of forces that is sparking economic growth and liftingpeople out of poverty in countries long dominated by aid-dependentgovernments. The "engine" comprises three forces: informationtechnology, imported by native entrepreneurs trained inthe West, backed by foreign investors.
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