Ending Global Poverty
For a fascinating video lecture by Muhammad Yunus, go to http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/289/ . He made his first loan of $27 to a group of 42 Bangladeshi village women, to help free them from debt to moneylenders and allow them to build their furniture business. He established the Grameen Bank in 1983 to help millions of Bangladeshis escape from poverty. The bank now has branches in more than 36 thousand Bangladeshi villages and in other countries.
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