President and CEO of the Grameen Foundation
President and CEO of the Grameen Foundation and author of Give Us Credit: How Muhammad Yunus' Microlending is Empowering Women from Bangladesh to Chicago
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Alex Counts
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FROM Alex Counts
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Bangladeshi Economist Wins Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank have brought this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Bangladesh. The economist has leveraged tiny loans for as little as $50 dollars to lift millions of people out of poverty. The Nobel Committee said his invention of micro-credit is helping the world move toward the "lasting peace [which] cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways to break out of poverty."
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