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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor p

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. – Muhammad Yunus

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Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. – Muhammad Yunus

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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. – Muhammad Yunus

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