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Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. [2] Yunus has received several other national and international honors, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. [ 3 ]
Who is Muhammad Yunus? Yunus founded Grameen Bank in October 1983, and the bank has since lent over $37.5 billion to Bangladesh's poor at a recovery rate of 97%.
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]
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.
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 ...
Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus will lead an interim government in Bangladesh after protests ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A Nobel laureate and microfinance pioneer steps in to lead ...
Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. Yunus has received several other national and international honors, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. Yunus is one of only seven ...
Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, photographed in his office in Dhaka on Feb. 29, 2024. ... from a teaching position at Middle Tennessee State University to his native ...