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"I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories tha..." — Muhammad Yunus
I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.
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