13 January 2010
In Currencies
Iqbal Z. Quadir
Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which promotes bottom-up entrepreneurship in developing countries. In the 1990s, Quadir founded GrameenPhone, which provides effective telephone access throughout Bangladesh.
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Why would people move to the cities when they have everything they need in the suburbs?—oscar