You Can Hear Me Now : How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor To the Global Economy


Nicholas P. Sullivan
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2007.
Omfang
1 online resource (274 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - You Can Hear Me Now; Contents; Preface; In the Hands of People; "A Magnificent Innovation"; Acknowledgments; The Author; Introduction; The Need for an External Shock; The Three Forces of External Combustion; Governments That Stymie Growth; Moving Toward Internal Combustion; The Next Billion; A Reader's Guide; Part I: The GrameenPhone Story; Chapter 1: Connectivity Is Productivity; The Liberation War (1971); A Teenager Emigrates to the United States; A Perfect Business Opportunity; Connecting the Villages; Chapter 2: Dish-Wallahs of Delhi (and Other Early Models). - Chapter 8: Cell Phone as WalletThe Birth of Mobile Banking in the Philippines; Mobile Banking in Africa; Remittances: Foreign Aid via Cell Phone; Sam Pitroda, Redux; Microloans by Phone; Formalizing Microfinance; Banking on a Younger Generation; Where's the Money?; Chapter 9: Wealth Creation and Rural Income Opportunities; ICT Drives GDP; Rural Income Opportunities; A New Retail Class in Africa; Repatriating or Reinvesting Profits?; Chapter 10: Beyond Phones; Gonofone Exits GrameenPhone; Quadir Meets Dean Kamen; The Myth of Appropriate Technology; Emergence Bio-Energy. - Fine-Tuning the Bio-Energy PlanEmergence Bio-Energy; Internal Combustion: Domestic Manufacturing; More Revolutionary Than GrameenPhone?; Chapter 11: Eyeing the Dhaka Stock Exchange; Bloody Hartals Cripple Business; Taxes Impede Industry Growth; Cheap Phones, Costly Connections; Foreign Investors Under the Gun; To List or Not to List; Silent Revolution; A People-Based Company; Epilogue; Notes; Resources; Index. - From Elegant Professor to Humble BankerFour Types of Loans; Village Phones in India; Dish-Wallahs of Delhi; Chapter 3: Cell Phone as Cow; Quadir Meets Yunus; Connectivity and Credit; The Hunt for Foreign Investors; Building a Case for Bangladesh; Finding Gold in the Mud; Chapter 4: On the Money Trail in Scandinavia; Grameen's Due Diligence; Scandinavia, Round Two; A New Push for Investors; Persistence (Finally) Pays; Deus Ex Machina; Modeling Phone Coverage; Yunus Agrees to Invest; Chapter 5: Building a Company; Filing the License Bid; Upping the Ante; Attention Turns to Fiber-Optic Cable. - Modeling a True Cellular NetworkCultivating Relationships with BR; The Waiting Game; GrameenPhone Wins a License; Chapter 6: Building a Network; Winning the Fiber Lease; The Village Pay Phones; Interconnection Difficulties; A Bold Move: Bypassing the Fixed-Line Network; Cash Flow Problems; Settling into Growth Mode; Part II: Transformation Through Technology; Chapter 7: Wildfire at the Bottom of the Pyramid; MTN's Battle for a License; Fast and Furious Buildout; Showdown with Mugabe in Zimbabwe; Sudan's Dr. Mo Returns to Africa; Egypt's Orascom: A New Global Player Emerges; The Tipping Point. - Bangladeshi villagers sharing cell phones helped build what is now a thriving company with more than 200 million in annual profits. But what is the lesson for the rest of the world? This is a question author Nicholas P. Sullivan addresses in his tale of a new kind of entrepreneur, Iqbal Quadir, the visionary and catalyst behind the creation of GrameenPhone in Bangladesh. GrameenPhone-a partnership between Norway's Telenor and Grameen Bank, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize-defines a new approach to building business opportunities in the developing world. You Can Hear Me Now off
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