Green Energy for a Billion Poor: How Grameen Shakti Created a Winning Model for Social Business

ISBN-13: 9783943310009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 226 str.

Nancy Wimmer

Opis

Witness the economic and social innovations of Grameen Shakti, sister company of the Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank.
Shakti masters the unique art of rural business, letting five million people benefit from light, electricity and additional income. Shakti is the vanguard model for tackling the enormous market of a billion villagers living far from the electric grid in developing countries. Read about Shakti's inner mechanics, services, strategies and values--and understand its success. Enjoy the lively exotic stories told by pioneers in Bangladesh. Foreword by Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate
.".. I congratulate Nancy Wimmer for getting interested in the activities of Grameen Shakti and studying it so deeply to bring out what makes it work.
She did not stop at presenting the philosophy and the impressive results produced by Grameen Shakti, she went beyond them to discover and understand the foot soldiers-cum-creators of Grameen Shakti. That makes this book very unique ..."

Spis treści

From the contents:
Preface, Acknowledgements, Foreword
PART 1-the Days of the Pioneers
1 Bootstrapping in the Hinterland
2 Developing the DNA of a Social Business
3 Becoming the Little Company That Could
PART 2-the Art of Rural Business
4 Planting the Seeds of Success in the Field
5 Keeping the Engine Running
6 Working on the Cutting Edge of Business
PART 3-Much Lies Ahead
6 Change Reaches the Village
7 A Quantum Leap in Social Business
Appendix

O autorze

Nancy Wimmer is an entrepreneur, researcher, and advisor to the World Council of Renewable Energy. She specializes in microfinance and rural electrification in developing countries. She has been involved with Grameen Bank since 1990 and with Grameen Shakti since its inception in 1996. Her career has many facets. Her political campaigns have targeted the German Government, the European Commission, the World Bank, and the United Nations. Her practical work has led her to the rural parts of Bangladesh, Egypt, El Salvador, India, Honduras, Nepal and Peru. She has lectured and published extensively and has advised investors and entrepreneurs. Nancy, an American citizen, studied law and political science, holds a Masters of Philosophy, and lives with her family near Munich.