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Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
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I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.
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Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.
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Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.
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