The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

Muhammad Yunus
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we...
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we...
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we...
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we...
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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them! The belief that the poor are always trapped in poverty is one of the most deeply rooted myths in economics. It is based on the idea that people who are poor are poor because they are poor, not because of their choices. This belief reduces poverty to a problem of distribution instead of a problem of value creation.

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