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  2. Muhammad Yunus - Wikipedia

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    Yunus was the first Bangladeshi to ever get a Nobel Prize. He established Grameen Bank in 1983, which plays a significant role in poverty alleviation in various countries of the world including Bangladesh. In 2006, he and the Grameen Bank he founded jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. [158]

  3. List of awards and honours received by Muhammad Yunus

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    2006 — Seoul Peace Prize [18] 2006 — Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Grameen Bank; 2007 — The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal awarded by Vanderbilt University [19] 2007 — Order of the Liberator in First Class with Grand Decoration awarded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez [20] 2009 — Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by Barack Obama [21]

  4. Banker to the Poor - Wikipedia

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    Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty is an autobiography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus. The book describes Yunus' early life, moving into his college years, and into his years as a professor at Chittagong University. While a professor at Chittagong University, Yunus ...

  5. Who is Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate leader of ... - AOL

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    Yunus and the Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, after lending a total of about $6 billion in housing, student and micro-enterprise loans, and specifically in support of ...

  6. The Nobel-winning banker behind the microfinance movement ...

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    The Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty in the country of Bangladesh. ... In addition to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 ...

  7. Mohammad Yunus - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh, and also is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Mohammad Younus (or variants such as Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammad and Yunus, Younis) may refer to: Mohammad Yunus (diplomat) (1916–2001), Indian ambassador

  8. A Nobel laureate and microfinance pioneer steps in to lead ...

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    Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus will lead an interim government in Bangladesh after protests ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

  9. Grameen Bank - Wikipedia

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    Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in his speech, said that, by giving the prize to Grameen Bank and Muhammad Yunus, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wanted to encourage attention on achievements of the Muslim world, on the women's perspective, and on the fight against poverty. [50]