When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.

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

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.