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Has this man got the solution to the world's financial woes?

Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus was in Glasgow this week to explain his revolutionary system of banking that has already given billions in loans to the poor. Sally Magnusson says that we should pay heed to his inspiring idea.

Sally Magnusson

With the global financial system teetering around him, a small man with the face of a cherubic gnome came to Scotland this week to suggest something we had all given up imagining: a solution.