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This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
Banker
Economist
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The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
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If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
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A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.
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I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on selflessness that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
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I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
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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. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.
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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.
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If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.
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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 millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.
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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
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Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
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The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.
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Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
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