Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Starting with a Handshake -- Pt. I. The Promise of Social Business -- 1. A New Kind of Business -- 2. Social Business: What It Is and What It Is Not -- Pt. II. The Grameen Experiment -- 3. The Microcredit Revolution -- 4. From Microcredit to Social Business -- 5. The Battle against Poverty: Bangladesh and Beyond -- 6. God Is in the Details -- 7. One Cup of Yogurt at a Time -- Pt. III. A World Without Poverty -- 8. Broadening the Marketplace -- 9. Information Technology, Globalization, and a Transformed World -- 10. Hazards of Prosperity -- 11. Putting Poverty in Museums -- Epilogue: "Poverty Is a Threat to Peace" - The Nobel Prize Lecture.

"What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prizewinner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people - mainly women - with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families." "This book describes how Yunus - in partnership with some of the world's most visionary business leaders - has launched the world's first purposely designed social businesses. From collaborating with Danone to produce affordable, nutritious yogurt for malnourished children in Bangladesh to building eyecare hospitals that will save thousands of poor people from blindness, Creating a World Without Poverty offers a glimpse of the amazing future Yunus forecasts for a planet transformed by thousands of social businesses. Yunus's "Next Big Idea" offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.