I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!

Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.

Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.