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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. What international aid agency is Yunus particularly critical of?

2. Who funds the fisheries project before Grameen?

3. What percentage of the aid money given to Bangladesh is estimated to actually be spent in the country?

4. Grameen develops ____ indicators to determine if members are poverty free.

5. In over two decades of existence, how many years does Grameen Bank not turn a profit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Grameen Phone and Grameen Telecom?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why doesn't Grameen offer skill training?

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

9. What is the Grameen Foundation USA?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay based on this statement: "The more money we lent to poor women, the more I realized that credit given to a woman brings about change faster than when given to a man," (Chapter 5, pp. 71-72).

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how The Nimgachi Fisheries Project is allegorically representative of the journey taken by the Grameen Bank.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following statement in relation to Yunus's specific plans to rid the world of poverty by 2050: "We have created a slavery-free world, a smallpox-free world, an apartheid-free world. Creating a poverty-free world would be greater than all these accomplishments while at the same time reinforcing them. This would be a world that we could all be proud to live in." (Chapter 14, p. 262).

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