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I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves the institutions and concepts that make up that system the policies that we pursue.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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