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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the aid money given to Bangladesh is estimated to actually be spent in the country?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 85 percent.
(c) 45 percent.
(d) 25 percent.

2. Who funds the fisheries project before Grameen?
(a) Bangladesh government.
(b) United Nations.
(c) World Bank.
(d) Brittish aid agency.

3. Grameen Bank provides housing loans at what interest rate?
(a) 5 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 8 percent.
(d) 20 percent.

4. In answering a reporter's question, Yunus says he would move the headquarters of the World Bank to where?
(a) Dhaka.
(b) Washington D. C.
(c) Jobra.
(d) London.

5. Like many Bengalis of his generation, Yunus is influenced by what kind of economics?
(a) Marxist.
(b) Macro.
(c) Keynesian.
(d) Micro.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a problem encountered by the Grameen fisheries project?

2. Yunus has a new definition of an entrepreneur who is what?

3. There is a long tradition of what craft that was once in high demand in Bangladesh?

4. Under the traditional orthodoxy of economics, all investment money is locked into what category?

5. Who is the president of the Grameen Foundation USA?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Yunus find with resource allocation in Bangladesh?

2. How does Yunus rate the success of the Grameen programs as he looks back on the first two decades?

3. Who are mirco-credit programs designed to reach?

4. What problems does Yunus encounter with the U.S. welfare system?

5. What is the Grameen Trust?

6. What is Yunus's view of the need for Internet access in poor communities?

7. What kind of loans does Grameen give now that it is an established world entity?

8. What is the definition of a "social entrepreneur"?

9. What problems does Grameen encounter in the early 1990s?

10. What role does Yunus believe the government should have in combating poverty?

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