“I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.”

—  Muhammad Yunus , book Banker to the Poor

Autobiography : Banker to the Poor (2001)

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