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Yunus sees opportunity in crisis

BETTER LIVES The first Global Grameen Meeting was hosted by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg last week. The forum’s goal is to eliminate poverty worldwide by 2030

AFP , WOLFSBURG, GERMANY

“You can create a job for others, you don’t have to wait to have a job,” Reitz said as the eurozone struggles to reduce chronic unemployment.

Yunus believes social businesses can unite public sector and charity goals with the dynamics of an enterprise.

“If you can design businesses, bring the power of business, and the technology of businesses and the creativity of businesses to bear on a problem, maybe we can solve it,” he said.

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