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You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor To the Global Economy
You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor To the Global Economy
Nicholas P. Sullivan
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8609-4
©2007
272 pages
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Bangladeshi villagers with cell phones helped build what is now a thriving $200 million company. What is the lesson for the rest of the world? This is a question author Nick Sullivan addresses in his new book through the tale of a new kind of entrepreneur, Iqbal Quadir. Sullivan provides a new approach to building business opportunity in the globalizing world through a compelling and engaging account of what he calls the “external combustion engine” – a combination of market elements and forces that is already lifting people out of poverty in the Third World. While many urge more aid to the often corrupt governments of these struggling countries, private investment is breathing life into their economies, which have long been stifled by those same autocratic, aid-dependent governments.  

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