http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/October/subcontinent_October526.xml§ion=subcontinentDHAKA - Bangladesh’s microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus vowed to make poverty history as he announced a raft of new plans aimed at transforming the fortunes of the rural poor, after becoming the impoverished country’s first Nobel laureate.
‘I think poverty eradication is very much possible. You change the environment, and we will lift thousands and millions of people out of poverty,’ Yunus said at the weekend.
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‘I think it’s quite possible to eradicate poverty from this world. I think we can halve the poverty level in Bangladesh by 2015. And in the next 15 years we can rid this land of it,’ he said.
Yunus added that he was now planning a string of new initiatives including health insurance for the poor, as well as information technology, solar energy and organic fertiliser projects.<more>
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