Muhammad yunus

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to...

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...

Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and...

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

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.

Business money is limitless.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.