[Moonman62]

The citation concluded: "Yunus's long-term vision is to eliminate poverty in the world. That vision can not be realised by means of micro-credit alone. But Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that, in the continuing efforts to achieve it, micro-credit must play a major part."

I wonder how our forefathers in the West ever accomplished what they did without micro-credit.

[Alter Kaker]

I wonder how our forefathers in the West ever accomplished what they did without micro-credit.

Who says they didn't have microcredit? You could take out small loans from general stores in the Old West.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I wonder how our forefathers in the West ever accomplished what they did without micro-credit.

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What makes you think they did not have banks back then?

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The first pioneers heading west from the East were not going out into the wilderness alone, there was a secure, stable nation behind them.

Those poor people in Bangladesh are trying to pull themselves up by their boot staps when they don't have any boots.

What this bank does should be commended. They are "teaching" people to fish, not providing the fish.

Will they be successful, I don't know, but they have a chance, and it is an effort worth doing.