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

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

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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 offers a compelling account of what Sullivan calls the "external combustion engine"-a combination of forces that is sparking economic growth and lifting people out of poverty in countries long dominated by aid-dependent governments.

The "engine" comprises three forces: information technology, imported by native entrepreneurs trained in the West, backed by foreign investors.

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