Dhaka, June 28 -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has urged the world to exchange "one-dimensional selfishness" for the human-centred principles of social business, setting out an ambitious vision of zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions.

Delivering the keynote address at the opening of the 15th Social Business Day at the Samajik Convention Centre yesterday, Prof Yunus told more than 1,000 delegates from 38 countries that the prevailing global order is "gloomy, but not of our making", and need not determine humanity's future.

"We did not create this world of crises," he said. "But we can refuse to accept it-and build a better one."

Organised by the Yunus Centre and the Grame...