The Man Who Wanted to Save Bangladesh | Dateline Archives
In 2007, Dateline sat down with Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, a US-educated economist who believed that being poor should not be a barrier to being able to take out a loan to buy your way out of poverty. He also toyed with the idea of not just saving Bangladesh's beggars, but also going into politics to try and save the entire nation.
In August 2024, Yunus was named Bangladesh's new interim leader following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and weeks of protests.
00:00 Dhaka after the 2007 military coup
01:35 A village transformed by Grameen Bank's microcredit
06:15 Yunus on capitalism, debt and poverty
12:27 Why most of Grameen Bank's borrowers are women
14:09 Yunus responds to criticism
15:37 What happened to democracy in Bangladesh?
20:17 Advice to the western world about its indebtedness
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