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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty is Muhammad Yunus’s 1999 autobiography detailing his founding of Grameen Bank and his vision for eradicating poverty through micro-lending. The book explores Yunus’s journey from being an economics professor in Bangladesh during the 1974 famine to pioneering a banking system that provides small, low-interest loans to impoverished communities, especially women, enabling them to escape poverty through self-initiative and work ethic.