We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - … - Muhammad Yunus

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Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Muhammad Yunus

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

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