RANGIYE DIYE JAO, JAO GO EBAR JABAR AGEY

Bangladeshi performers sing Tagore, Yunus receives Nobel, says I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people.


Dancers from Bangladesh at the Nobel award ceremony

Check out the video clip of the ceremony here. (For those interested in fast forward: The Tagorean song and dance sequence appears 37 min after the start of the video and are followed by the prize presentation and lecture)


A carpenter working in his back yard shop opened with Grameen bank's microcredit loan

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Mohd. Yunus and Taslima Begum (representative of the Grameen Bank) with Norwegian royals

I support globalization and believe it can bring more benefits to the poor than its alternative. But it must be the right kind of globalization. To me, globalization is like a hundred-lane highway criss-crossing the world. If it is a free-for-all highway, its lanes will be taken over by the giant trucks from powerful economies. Bangladeshi rickshaw will be thrown off the highway. In order to have a win-win globalization we must have traffic rules, traffic police, and traffic authority for this global highway. Rule of "strongest takes it all" must be replaced by rules that ensure that the poorest have a place and piece of the action, without being elbowed out by the strong. Globalization must not become financial imperialism.

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