GRAMEEN BANK, FOUNDER YUNUS WIN NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
MICRO-CREDIT PIONEERS HONORED FOR WORK TO END POVERTY
13 October 2006

Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist and entrepreneur who founded the Grameen Bank to give micro-credit loans to poor small-business owners, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus shares the prize with the bank he founded, the award given for the bank's efforts to help eradicate endemic poverty among large populations through individual financing. [Full Story]

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