I BECAME INVOLVED in the poverty issue not as a policy-maker or a researcher, but because poverty was all around me and I could not turn away from it. In 1974, I found it difficult to teach elegant theories of economics in the university classroom, against the backdrop of a terrible famine in Bangladesh. Suddenly, I felt the emptiness of those theories in the face of crushing hunger and poverty. I wanted to do something immediate to help people around me. That brought me face to face with poor people’s struggle to find the tiniest amounts of money to support their efforts to eke out a living. ...
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