TY - BOOK ID - 102500008 TI - You can hear me now : how microloans and cell phones are connecting the world's poor to the global economy PY - 2007 SN - 9780787986094 0787986097 PB - San Francisco Jossey-Bass DB - UniCat KW - Cell phone services industry KW - Cellular telephone services industry KW - Information technology KW - Telecommunication KW - Grameen Phone Ltd. KW - Grameen Phone Ltd UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:102500008 AB - 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. ER -