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

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

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.