Poverty Is Unnecessary

Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, was nominated as one of the 25 most influential business leaders in the world along with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Alan Greenspan, etc.

In an interview with Nightly Business Report, Muhammad Yunus said poverty is unnecessary. Human beings are quite capable of taking care themselves. but we have created a society that denies some unfortunate people the opportunities.

This made me ponder: what is wrong with our society? Why are 80% of the world's population living in bad conditions, and proximately 1.5 billion people are stricken by poverty (less than $1 a day)? It can’t be just because of the greed of the few and corruption of the governments….

Does this make us – who are fortunate to be in the 20% with reasonably good living conditions – to feel responsible to do something about it?

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