How can firms help alleviate poverty? By Prof.Yunus
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Poverty can be alleviated through human ingenuity. This is the belief of Prof.Yunus. He has spent decades helping the world's poor. He invented social business and developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, notably through his work with Grameen Bank. His social business projects include creating Bangladesh's largest seed bank after learning that poor children's night blindness was caused by a lack of vegetables in their diet.
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