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Micro-finance
Stories It all began with a famine – How the “Banker to the Poor” tackled poverty for half a century
Yunus returned home from the United States in the 1970s to teach. In 1974, Bangladesh suffered from widespread famine. While passionate about education, Yunus could not help but wonder – should he be getting out of the classroom instead of staying an armchair strategist? “But where do I begin?”