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- My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
- My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe…
- My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take…
- We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;…
- Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity.…
- We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's…
- Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.
- I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the…
- Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more…
- Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given…
- I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from…
- I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt…
- Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from…
- When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the…
- The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around…
- Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional…
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