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Ultimate Resource | Pennies A Day | PBS

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Carved from the Asian sub-Continent after a bloody civil war with Pakistan, the small nation of Bangladesh is the most densely populated on earth. When Bangladesh won independence in 1971, more than 70 percent of its people lived on less than one dollar a day. Hunger and famine haunted almost every village and every family. It was into this world that Minara Begum and Dinislam Hussain were born. When they were only 13, Minara and Dinislam were married in an arranged ceremony. Dinislam had grown up in a village of weavers and had learned the trade. He worked hard for others, but he could never get ahead. Dinislam and Minara could barely feed their first child. Explore how they were able to raise themselves out of poverty, the role that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank had on their lives, and the power of free markets.

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Post Date: July 17, 2009