Bangladeshi banker and Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus discusses a model of capitalism he terms "social business," and demonstrates how it can change lives and restore the potential of free-market enterprise with regard to fulfilling human needs and making the world better while producing goods and services.

Includes index.

Introduction: social business--from dream to reality -- Why social business? -- Growing pains : lessons in adaptation and change from the story of Grameen Danone -- Launching a social business -- To cure one child : a case of social business in health care -- Legal and financial frameworks for social business -- Grameen Veolia Water : a social R&D project for addressing the world water crisis -- Creating a global infrastructure for social business -- Glimpses of tomorrow : more social businesses are on the way -- The end of poverty : the time is here.

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