The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.

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

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.