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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of the book, what percentage of Grameen Bank does Bangladeshi government own?

2. Yunus estimates that Internet use worldwide is __________ every year.

3. The first Microcredit Summit was held in what year?

4. How many children around the world die each day from hunger-related diseases?

5. What year does Professor Gibbons launch the Grameen replicator program called Project Ikhtiar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are Grameen-like programs established around the world?

2. How do the Clintons become involved with the Grameen Bank?

3. According to Yunus, what role does free trade play in poverty relief?

4. How do micro-credit programs get started in the United States?

5. What is Yunus's view of how to end poverty in the world?

6. Why doesn't Grameen offer skill training?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Grameen replication process and success of the programs introduced into Malaysia and the Philippines.

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the Grameen loan program is structured and discuss how that structures goes against all traditional loan programs.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the Grameen Foundation USA is established, despite the problems Yunus perceives to exist in the welfare programs in the United States.

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