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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. An independent investigator finds what percentage of CARD members use their loans for income-generating activities?

2. As GrameenPhone is launched, Bangladesh has one phone per _______ inhabitants.

3. The program in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is changed from the Grameen Fund to the ___________.

4. Like many Bengalis of his generation, Yunus is influenced by what kind of economics?

5. Yunus argues that World Bank policies affect who the most?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are Grameen Phone and Grameen Telecom?

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

5. What is the problem between Grameen and the World Bank?

6. Why doesn't Grameen offer skill training?

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

8. What does Yunus believe is the best way to help control population size?

9. How does Grameen give its staff leeway to be creative with loans?

10. What problems does the Grameen fishery project encounter in the first years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

How is Yunus weaving a "beautiful allegory" for the whole Grameen enterprise? Discuss fully, including discussion of the Grameen logo and what it represents.

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