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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 ]
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.
The Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty in the country of Bangladesh. Grameen became famous for pioneering the concept of ...
The Grameen Bank, which is generally considered the first modern microcredit institution, was founded in 1983 by Muhammad Yunus. [2] Yunus began the project in a small town called Jobra, using his own money to deliver small loans at low-interest rates to the rural poor. Grameen Bank was followed by organizations such as BRAC in 1972 and ASA in ...
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 ...
Left to right: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Queen Sophia of Spain, Bangladesh local government state minister Mohammad Rahmat Ali, and chief of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus, as ...
Prior to co-founding Yunus Social Business, Muhammad Yunus pioneered the field of micro-finance through Grameen Bank in his home country of Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing microfinance and trying to tackle poverty. Grameen Bank became the first of several social businesses that ...
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 ...