In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business—business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World Without Poverty reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.

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    Spread the Word

By : Bunny

Most creative concept that is truly workable. Had an idea for Mr. Yunus: What would he think about embarking on a "tutoring seminar" to help spread the word?
This could be geared to the successful large businesses in the major cities. The purpose would be to teach how the principles of "social business" could be adapted to various kinds of business for various kinds of purposes.
The project could expand to internet tutoring.
This might work on a "donation" concept instaed of charging a fee for the tutoring.
As I see it, right now only (mostly) those involved are aware of the concept, and it needs to have a fire built under it!
Respectfully submitted
"Bunny"

    Good Book, Little Utopian

By : Michael Griswold

I liked this book and I greatly admire Muhammad Yunus for his work throughout Bangladesh and other locales throughout the world. His idea is generally sound that the Western world's attitude towards the poor is misguided because the poor do have something great to offer this world and may not need the well intended training programs and clearly gigantic aid checks to dubious governments haven't done much to free people throughout the world from poverty. Therefore, we should give the poor tools they need to free themselves from poverty like Yunus banks have. However, the end of the book where he is talking about a world without war, poverty, and equal access for everyone to basic things we often take for granted in the Western world made me pause and actually prevented this from being a five star book.

Damn me as cynical if you must, but a world without war is a utopian dream that is not going to come about through social business because war is on its' face a human endeavor and human beings are imperfect and fallible. I think it would be great if no child had to die of a disease we could prevent, but I think overall although social business is a good idea it's overrated because you'd need so many social businesses dedicated to poverty relief, medicine and immunization, and other enterprises that the capitalist system would have to die out instead of co-existing with the social business models. I don't quite see how the profit-making enterprises and social enterprises would co-exist.

    The New Economics

By : Gabriel Ramirez

Yunus is definitely changing our point of view about world economics. In his book (on what I have read so far) he gives a lot of clues about how modern capitalism can help on improving the life quality of the poorest people. As always, his model shocks with the standard beliefs about money and economics, but gives an inspiring message about helping others without falling into assistentialism.
Good written and useful.

    Very Inspiring Book!

By : Khaled Altaher

Muhummad Yunus is a genius. He came up with practical solutions to reduce and hopefully eliminate poverty. These are to encourage the establishments of banks that lend the poor; and establish Social Businesses that will provide products and services to help improve the standards of living of the poor. Hopefully these two solutions will help reduce global poverty if they became widespreads, since it seems they have achieved excellent results in Bangladesh.

I was amazed with the Grameen Danone company that was established in Bangladesh, which represents a joint venture between Grameen Bank and the French Dairy Company "Danone". It was very inspiring to study such a company that provided cheap food products to the poor children in Bangladesh that helped improve their nutrition and health.

Muhammad Yunus inspired us with this wonderful book. He sure deserves to receive the Nobel prize and I hope Social Businesses and Banks to the poor spread globally. Poverty is harsh, sad, and painful. It is time for the rich people to do something about it. Establishment of more Social Businesses would be an excellent step forward.

    Moved me to tears

By : W. Cheung

I honestly was moved to tears during my reading of the book. It is not sentimental and the author is passionately optimistic in regards to the possibility that running non-profit endeavors, with the sole intention of the betterment of the destitute, and using a system that aims at efficiency, and through borrowing the concept of competition from the conventional market place, can solve the problem of poverty, at least slowly and gradually. Its essence is that we should encourage people to see that the meaning of life is greater than just profiting oneself and create incentives to prosper this engagement. I must say that I am converted! However, while I greatly admire Professor Yunus's aspiration and stature, his is not necessarily the best written kind of prose. There is a reasonable amount of repetition and at times perhaps there are too much details, for example. Saying this, I still highly recommend this because it is that kind of book that one wants to own even if one does not read it thoroughly.