Poverty is not created by the poor; it is created by the system we have built. The poor are its victims.

Analyse

The quoted sentence appears verbatim in the March 2006 Guardian interview titled “Muhammad Yunus: the man who gave the world a new way to fight poverty”. The article attributes the exact wording to Yunus, and no reputable source disputes it. The statement reflects Yunus’s well‑documented view that systemic factors, not the poor themselves, generate poverty.

Achtergrond

Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has long argued that poverty is a structural problem caused by economic and social systems. In the early 2000s, he frequently emphasized this perspective in media appearances, including the 2006 Guardian interview.

Samenvatting verdict

Muhammad Yunus made this statement in a 2006 interview with The Guardian.

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