Bank on them!
August 16, 2008 – 11:34 amOnce, on my way back home, I struck up a conversation with an auto driver about his job.
He did not own the auto he was driving. He had taken it on rent for INR 150.00 for half a day, from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. For the other half, it was rented out to another driver. I wondered if it would not make sense to give that money as installment, and buy an auto.
“The bank will not give me loan”, he said.
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Bangladesh witnessed a severe famine in 1974. At that time, Muhammad Yunus was working as Professor and Head of Department, Economics, in Chittagong University. The acute poverty he saw all around made him question the applicability of what he taught in the classroom to the real world.
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