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Os telemóveis combatem a pobreza

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Iqbal Quadir |

TEDGlobal 2005

• July 2005

Iqbal Quadir conta como as suas experiências enquanto criança num país pobre como o Bangladesh e, mais tarde, como banqueiro em Nova Iorque, o levaram a fundar uma empresa operadora de telemóveis, e ligar 80 milhões de aldeões do Bangladesh nas zonas rurais — tornando-se num campeão de desenvolvimento "bottom-up".

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Iqbal Quadir conta como as suas experiências enquanto criança num país pobre como o Bangladesh e, mais tarde, como banqueiro em Nova Iorque, o levaram a fundar uma empresa operadora de telemóveis, e ligar 80 milhões de aldeões do Bangladesh nas zonas rurais — tornando-se num campeão de desenvolvimento "bottom-up".

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Founder, GrameenPhone

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Iqbal Quadir is an advocate of business as a humanitarian tool. With GrameenPhone, he brought the first commercial telecom services to poor areas of Bangladesh. His latest project will help rural entrepreneurs build power plants.

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