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Yunus is expected to hand over interim leadership with elections early 2026
Blue Book - Social Business - Future of Capitalism was (ghost) written first 6 months of 2007 after Yunus won Nobel Peace Prize (lobbied for by Clintons). It offers a missing jigsaw piece to all asian human development economics but not if solely coordinated by Yunus. Deeper entrepreneurs were Fazle Abed and are the Quadir family. (As a Diaspora scot, after 13 trips to bangladesh I decided I am totally unable to study which political or faith leaders did what as human's 8th largest population and deepest end poverty miracle scaled 1971-2019, but yunus, abed, quadirs merit being in any intelligence hall of fame EconomistDiary.com : AI Games: Architect Intelligence ). After Sir Fazle Abed's death, i have focused my limited budget and personal travel updates on Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Review copies which my family made available to Economist journalists and Japan Embassies were available from fall 2007, and I first met Yunus at Grameen Bank xmas 2007. We then sampled 2000 Blue books from early 2008 across Europe and East coast US. Intelligence roots came from Yunus book tour USA January 2008, UK February, French edition April (important because the idea of global social business partnerships was Parisian (Danone and HEC Business School chapter 6 pp 129), later Berlin...
The book can help open maps to Asia most conflicting Geonomics (post colonial ai) puzzles as well as offering behavioral insights into living through 4 tech revolutions in one intergeneration from 1995-2025 (community networking through chips*satellite clouds*AI accelerated supercomputers) but partly because it was ghosted it leaves out most of yunus investment sources and other core entrepreneurs like Brac Fazle Abed and the tech village phone revolution which the Quadir brothers started with Yunus. As early as January 2008, Yunus saw subprime coming. He was expecting Obama and Clintons (who first met him 1989!) would ask for his help in Jan 2009.
When my father The Economist's Norman Macrae hosted Yunus social business lunch in London Royal Automobile Club feb 2008. Subprime was puzzle number 2 interesting my father. Because dad had been stationed in Bangladesh region (spending last days as teenage navigator ww2 allied bomber command burma campaign and my mother's family work on India's Independence) Puzzle number 1 pp 124-8 how had Asia coastal development stopped at Myanmar/Bangladesh. You can follow from late 1950s development of superports in Japan, Korea S, Taiwan, HK, Singapore . Their supply chains manufactured microelectronics doubling chip power every 18 months from 1965 as well as Geonomic maps shared by JF Kennedy and the 2 Royal families of UK, Japan 1962-3 EconomistJapan.com . From late 1980s superport knowhow was also linked in by Chinese Diaspora from north to south on china coast from beijing to south down china coastline but stopped at Myanamar/Bangladesh. Bengali Bayspeople had been partitioned ff from what had been the 19th century's number 1 superport Calcutta; most of bengal bay and myanmar have for 80 years been the infrastructure block to all asians enjoying superport world trade and the ever larger win-win cake of real and artificial intelligence.
In worldwide mapping contexts, the book puzzles show how broken all USAID was as well as human development economics of clintons (who first visited Yunus in Bangladesh 1989 at about the same time as he was helping Obama;s mom in Indonesia as testified to by jim kiim Hacking the World Bank - Freakonomics) , Biden, Obama, and how broken youth-investment broken EU was in responding to 1 fall of berlin wall, 2 after 9/11, after subprime.
Bangladesh is also the history of digital transfromation and energy puzzles: the quadit brothers brough village phones from pp 78 and solar pp79 to Bangladesh even before this was brought to village china (all very sudden 1995)
Abed had started scaling women empowerment across 100000 people communities (15000 village women householders per brac branch) at a time in 1972. That's 11 years before Grameen Bank Ordinance 1983. Abed had scaled food and health social businesses. With James Grant his networks were sharing oral rehydration and vaccination knowhow with china's tropical villages. Abed was launching 40000 primary schools village education This was not the ashoka model of changing one life at a time - as abed said in bangladesh: small may be beautiful but large scale is absolutely essential. When village phones came to Bangladesh- the quadirs got yunus a licence at pennies in dollar and grameen phone was launched as a hybrid- big telecom company, grameen village telephone ladies. A japanese company in silicon valley helped abed install a corporate intranet. One of yunus problems is his pure social business ,model takes too much out as women members dividends that tech companies from 1995 needed reinvesting in.
2008-10 As subprime caused west to disinvest in youth, my family sampled 2000 yunus books across europe and east coast usa. After dads death in 2010, the Japan Embassy in 2012 hosted 2 roundtables with Fazle Abed and the quadiur family to understand review everything including yunus forfeiture of grameen bank to hasina and transfer of quadirs from supporting yunus to fazle abed - building bkash with Gates and jack ma's alipay. Glasgow Adam Smith University took over my father's main library and started publishing Social Business Journal so we know Yunus story from every European country's fan groups including his continuing role in shaping Olympics.
At Abed's 80th birthday party dhaka 2016, Gates and Ma assembled with fei-fei li the un transformation of education and ai for good model but this map of UN2.0 got lost end of 2019 with death of abed , start of covid,,, as well as Trump's end of American aid
Fortunately at 2025 Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita ENGLISH SPEECH | NITA AMBANI: Women's empowerment (English Subtitles) Nita Ambani Congratulates Nobel Laureate Prof. Yunus
is a great supporter of Muhammad Yunus and women empowerment. As India Agentic AI experiment becomes AI most populous transformation both of India and S Asia , will bangladesh be included. It seems Youth's forgiveness of Hasina in Delhi is the urgent potential stumbling block.
Abed's deepest partnerships today include first lady of qatar and Singapore Universities, potentially melinda gates but she has failed to connect this with eomens ai in asia. While Yunus was well understood by Japan's PM Abe, he has somewhat unnerved Prince Charles and Japan Emperor families partly because he did not share all his solar energy knowledge openly in 2000s.
You can dig through Bangladesh moments in history some other interesting dates potentially relevant to ABCDE of human development economics and world bank/multilateral future possibilities
1995 womens summit beijing - essentially this was last summit before village telecoms and solar and united brac and chinese knowhow round barefoot medics, food and schools networks.
One good thing happened in 2001 before 9/11. Steve Jobs hosted 65th birthday party of Fazle Abed in Silicon Valley. From then on west coast-pacific and east coast atlantic has been 2 different stories of world futures - little sister vs big brother. Steve Jobs agreed Abeds dream of changing roles of graduate women engineering. He worked with nvidia yahoo and Tsai-Softbank and stanford on that before designing a university in a phone and having his life curtailed by cancer.
So the blue book merits being in any entrepreneurial revolution library but needs contextual parsing
Sincerely
Chris Macrae Bethesda MD + 1 240 316 8157
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