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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. Yunus stresses in his speech that the Microcredit Summit is not what?

2. Yunus believes one of the biggest flaws of international aid agencies is being too what?

3. Yunus calls the ____________ the "Grameen micro-credit highway."

4. As GrameenPhone is launched, Bangladesh has one phone per _______ inhabitants.

5. Grameen goes against traditional methods of poverty alleviation by not providing what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the Clintons become involved with the Grameen Bank?

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

4. What problems does Grameen encounter in the early 1990s?

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

6. What is Yunus's view of how to end poverty in the world?

7. How do micro-credit programs get started in the United States?

8. How does the Grameen Bank begin replication programs?

9. What are Grameen Phone and Grameen Telecom?

10. What kind of loans does Grameen give now that it is an established world entity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay based on this statement: "The more money we lent to poor women, the more I realized that credit given to a woman brings about change faster than when given to a man," (Chapter 5, pp. 71-72).

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the Grameen Foundation USA is established, despite the problems Yunus perceives to exist in the welfare programs in the United States.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how The Nimgachi Fisheries Project is allegorically representative of the journey taken by the Grameen Bank.

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