On Saturday, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus urged political leaders from different countries to compete in the eradication of poverty.
Poverty in Bangladesh has been falling by 2 percent per year thanks to the genius efforts of Yunus and his Grameen Bank. Yunus started the Grameen Bank with the help of self-help groups of poor people. The bank provides microloans to poor people, mainly women, which helps them start or reinvigorate their own small businesses. This enables them permanently escape poverty.
Yunus aims to half poverty in Bangladesh by 2015 and eliminate it by 2030. He says that then he wants to setup a poverty museum so that the younger generation knows what poverty is all about.
Yunus amazes me more and more every time I read or see more about him.