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The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficien...more

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To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what h...more

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I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fu...more

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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 them!

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Poverty is unnecessary.

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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

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Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

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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 solution for ...more

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If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot ...more

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The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad ...more

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I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to...more

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Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, ...more

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..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

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...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same peop...more