"If you are born into a poor family, if you are a woman you have seen the worst of poverty. In a cultural way in the families in Bangladesh it's the women who eats last. So if you have a scarcity in the family … she misses out so everything comes in the raw deal for her. So, given a chance she works very hard to make a change to improve her life. And by training she is the most efficient manager of scarce resources. Because with the little resource she has, she has to stretch it as much as she can to look after the children, look after the family and everything else..unlike men - men want to enjoy right away. Whatever he got, whatever tiny bit of thing he got he doesn't care for much what's coming up."
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Heads of governmentNobel Peace Prize laureatesEconomists from BangladeshBusinesspeople from BangladeshMuslims from Bangladesh
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"Interview with Prof. Muhammad Yunus" Australian Broadcasting Corporation (25 March 1997)
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