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

Bangladeshi villagers sharing cell phones helped build what is nowa thriving company with more than $200 million in annual profits.But what is the lesson for the rest of the world? This is aquestion author Nicholas P. Sullivan addresses in his tale of a newkind of entrepreneur, Iqbal Quadir, the visionary and catalystbehind the creation of GrameenPhone in Bangladesh.

GrameenPhone—a partnership between Norway's Telenor andGrameen Bank, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize—definesa new approach to building business opportunities in the developingworld. You Can Hear Me Now offers a compelling account ofwhat Sullivan calls the "external combustion engine"—acombination of forces that is sparking economic growth and liftingpeople out of poverty in countries long dominated by aid-dependentgovernments. The "engine" comprises three forces: informationtechnology, imported by native entrepreneurs trained inthe West, backed by foreign investors.

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