Using the free market to reduce world poverty

    Using the free market to reduce world poverty. We’ll talk with MUHAMMAD YUNUS, the founder and Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, which pioneered the use of micro-credit lending. He and his bank shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus is author of the new book Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. It outlines how to develop a more humane form of capitalism with the development of social businesses.
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