“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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Muhammad Yunus (b. 1940), Nobel laureate and economist pioneering microfinance for poverty alleviation. His work demonstrates how removing systemic barriers empowers individuals to achieve extraordinary potential and create lasting change.
“...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 people into matchless performers.”
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