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The Power of Mobile Phones to End Poverty

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Partnering with microcredit pioneer GrameenBank, in 1997 Quadir established GrameenPhone, a wireless operator now offering phone services to 80 million rural Bangladeshi. He explains the power of phones as a tool of bottom-up development.