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Through the Chittagong University Rural Development Project, I encouraged my students to go with me into the village and devise creative ways to improve day-to-day life there. By now I had almost completely abandoned classical book learning in favor of hands-on, person-to-person experience. Based on their experiences in...

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I did something that challenged the banking world.

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My goal has been to create an environment where people are empowered to try things.

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My ambition was to make myself useful to one person even for the day.

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I did not plan, I did not speculate, I just jumped into it.

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How could he simply teach elegant theories of the free market, he thought, while hunger and poverty threatened the lives of millions?

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Bangladesh s history is not a small history, there are lots of ups and downs, a lot of violence ndash; but I have no intention of leaving the country.

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So I learnt by doing. I started in one way and continued in that direction. I never had a blueprint that I have to do this year this, next year that, third year this and on the fifth year that. I was always thinking that if I do...

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I used to feel a thrill at teaching my students the elegant economic theories that could supposedly cure societal problems of all types. But in 1974, I started to dread my own lectures. What good were all my complex theories when people were dying of starvation on the...

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I used to feel a thrill at teaching my students the elegant economic theories that could supposedly cure societal problems of all types. But in 1974, I started to dread my own lectures. What good were all my complex theories when people were dying of starvation on the...

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