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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 March 2003, how many "telephone ladies" does GrameenPhone have selling phone services in villages?

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

3. Jan Piercy is Hillary Rodham Clinton's ____________.

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

5. Simply by being a shareholder in the Grameen Bank, members receive what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Grameen offer skill training?

3. What is the International Dialogue Program?

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

5. How does the Grameen Bank begin replication programs?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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).

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

What, specifically, leads Yunus to become a banker to the poor?

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