“Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.”

— Muhammad Yunus

Grameen Bank II: Designed to Open New Possibilities (2002)

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Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipie… 1940

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