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An economics professor lent $27 to 42 families during a famine and discovered that the poor were the most creditworthy customers banks had ever ignored. 50 years later: $39 billion disbursed, 10 million borrowers, Nobel Peace Prize.

An IIT engineer returned from the US to disprove three myths: that the poor can't afford solar, can't maintain technology, and social enterprises can't be profitable. 29 years and 2 million installations later, the myths are dead.