"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."

People, Development, Right, Talking

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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."

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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."

People, Development, Right, Talking

"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."

Society, People, Care

"Business money is limitless."

Business, Money

"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 very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."

People, Country, Dying, Famine

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

Money, People, Poor

"Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women."

Family, Money, Women, Policy

"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."

People, Financial, Population, Shame

"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."

Society, America, Talk

"Poverty is unnecessary."

Poverty,

"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."

Change, People, Challenge, Eyes

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