Document Type
Prologue
Abstract
My involvement with the poverty issue was neither as a researcher nor a policy maker. I became involved because poverty was everywhere around me and I could not turn away from it. In 1974, I found it very difficult to teach the elegant theories of economics in a university classroom while Bangladesh was facing a terrible famine. Suddenly, I felt the emptiness and futility of those "immaculate" theories in the face of crushing hunger and unimaginable poverty. I wanted to do something immediate to help people around me, even if it meant that just one human being would be helped to get through another day with a little bit more ease.
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
Yunus, Muhammad
(2009)
"Prologue to Rethinking Poverty,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 4:
No.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol4/iss1/2
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Poverty--International cooperation; Globalization; International economic relations; Globalization--Social aspects
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text