Through the Chittagong University Rural Development Project, I encouraged my students to go with me into the village and devise creative ways to improve day-to-day life there. By now I had almost completely abandoned classical book learning in favor of hands-on, person-to-person experience. Based on their experiences in...
I did something that challenged the banking world.
My goal has been to create an environment where people are empowered to try things.
My ambition was to make myself useful to one person even for the day.
I did not plan, I did not speculate, I just jumped into it.
How could he simply teach elegant theories of the free market, he thought, while hunger and poverty threatened the lives of millions?
Bangladesh s history is not a small history, there are lots of ups and downs, a lot of violence ndash; but I have no intention of leaving the country.
So I learnt by doing. I started in one way and continued in that direction. I never had a blueprint that I have to do this year this, next year that, third year this and on the fifth year that. I was always thinking that if I do...
I used to feel a thrill at teaching my students the elegant economic theories that could supposedly cure societal problems of all types. But in 1974, I started to dread my own lectures. What good were all my complex theories when people were dying of starvation on the...
I used to feel a thrill at teaching my students the elegant economic theories that could supposedly cure societal problems of all types. But in 1974, I started to dread my own lectures. What good were all my complex theories when people were dying of starvation on the...
