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Muhammad Yunus on the Power of Imagination to Create Change

November 21, 2019

By Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank

In this video, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank imagines a future with “poverty museums” and shares his vision for creating change. “If we imagine today the world we want, and that’s the world we created, everybody has the freedom to imagine in his or her way,” says Yunus. “My imagination is that we want to create a world that is absolutely free from poverty. Meaning there would be no poor person on this planet, anywhere in the world. We make social fictions happen.”

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