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About Muhammad Yunus
In 1976, walking through the drought-ravaged village of Jobra near Chittagong University, he lent $27 from his own pocket to 42 women making bamboo stools, no collateral, no bank, no precedent. That act crystallized a radical idea: credit is a human right, not a privilege reserved for those who already possess assets. He didn’t design microcredit as a financial product first, he designed it as a tool for dignity, testing every assumption against the lived reality of landless women in rural Bangladesh. Grameen Bank wasn’t built on risk models or shareholder returns, but on trust-based lending circles, mandatory savings, and weekly group meetings where repayment became communal accountability. His insistence that poverty is not caused by laziness, but by systems that exclude the poor from capital, shifted global development orthodoxy. He refused to treat borrowers as clients; he called them partners in building a 'world without poverty,' one tiny loan, one women-led enterprise, one village at a time.
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- “How did you convince skeptical bankers that uncollateralized loans to illiterate women could be viable?”
- “What made you insist that Grameen Bank’s board include borrowers—not just economists?”
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- “How did your background in economics shape your rejection of conventional poverty metrics?”