Podcast: A Journey for change in Inclusive Finance and Social Entrepreneurship #6
Episode 6: The Economy Three Zeros with Professor Muhammad Yunus: Building a world without poverty, unemployment and net carbon emissions
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Welcome to our podcast series
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation continues its podcast series that features stories from leaders of the Grameen family who are reshaping the landscape of inclusive finance and social business around the world. In this sixth episode, we meet Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, microfinance pioneer and visionary of social entrepreneurship, to explore his trajectory from Bangladesh to the world stage and his vision of the Three Zeros: Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon Emissions..
What you'll discover
Professor Yunus shares his journey, from the 1970s in Bangladesh where he challenged the paradigm of inevitable poverty to his recent role as head of the transitional government organizing democratic elections in Bangladesh for 180 million people. Explore how his simple intuition "What if the poorest could become actors in their own development?" changed our understanding of entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and social change. Also discover his latest initiative: a pioneer university entirely dedicated to the creation of a world of Three Zeros..
Key Highlights
- The power of simple intuition How a question asked in 1976 in Bangladesh enabled the development of microfinance, redefining what poor people can achieve
- The fundamental role of women : Why women, naturally creative and imaginative, are the main drivers of social entrepreneurship and economic transformation
- The Three Zeros Vision A radically different economy, based on Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon; not as a utopia, but as a necessity
- Imagination as a foundation of change Imagination costs nothing but creates everything: it is the starting point of any real transformation
- A new university launched this year that completely rethinks education, training job creators rather than job seekers
- Young people as architects of the future How to inspire a generation to define which world they want to build
Why this matters
The world is facing an unprecedented convergence of crises: persistent poverty, youth unemployment, environmental degradation, and gender inequality. Professor Yunus is proposing not a series of solutions, but a complete new imagination of the economic system itself. His Three Zeros vision is not a distant dream – it is an urgent call to rethink our institutions, our universities, our businesses, and our very conception of what it means to “create value.”
Perfect for
Social entrepreneurs and impact creators, political decision-makers and public transformation actors, innovators in inclusive finance, women entrepreneurs, young people seeking meaning and purpose, advocates of climate action and the circular economy, impact investors, leaders of non-profit organizations, and anyone who believes that systemic change is possible and necessary.
Key quote
" What if the poorest people could become the actors of their own development? " – Professor Yunus' founding question
" Imagination costs nothing. Imagine what you want to build and you'll be amazed to see it become reality. "
Listen now
Listen now and be inspired by the visionary who showed the world that another economic system is possible.
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