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Muhammad Yunus's BiographyMuhammad Yunus (Bangla: মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস, pronounced Muhammôd Iunus) (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concept of microcredit. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In 1998 he was awarded with the Concorde Prince of asturias award. In 2006, Yunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below." Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors. He is the author of Banker to the Poor and a founding board member of Grameen America and Grameen Foundation. In early 2007 Yunus showed interest in launching a political party in Bangladesh named Nagorik Shakti (Citizen Power), but later discarded the plan. He is one of the founding members of Global Elders. Yunus also serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support United Nations causes. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN.
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2009 MEDAL OF FREEDOM RECIPIENTS
By: EllentheGreat
President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom to 16 people whom he has dubbed "agents of change." Besides Sen. Edward Kennedy, others who received the nation's highest civilian honor were: Nancy Goodman Brinker, 62, founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, one of the nation's leading fundraising events for breast cancer research. Pedro ...
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By: Just_Playin_Dumb
This morning the United States and world was thrown into a state of shock when President Barack Obama was announced the winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. However, when you think about it....what has Obama even done to merit such an award? Nothing! It was a monumental event when he was announced the first African American president in ...
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President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
By: dustgeer
President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for what the committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."Obama is only the ...
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President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
By: genius-world
OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Many observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, ...
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- News Source: The Mercury News | 5 days agoInstead of moving inventory and selling services, these entrepreneurs aim to bring electricity to those without lights, nutrition to those who will die without supplemental vitamins and low-cost solar hearing aids for those who otherwise couldn't
- News Source: The Guardian | 14 days agoIt rests on looking beyond our borders Monday's celebration in Berlin was a brilliant closure. The opening of a European foreign policy looks more shaky Well, they did it beautifully. Despite the rain, I found the official celebration of the fall of
- News Source: Scoop | 17 days agoDjuyoto was in Semarang to check the finishing stage of the making of a world peace gong by a Central Java craftsman in Jepara district. He said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was scheduled to strike the gong to mark the opening of the World
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- Blog Source: elnotes.com | 4 days ago“Grameen Bank has been around for 33 years, and every year he makes a profit – says Muhammad Yunus. – We give credit to the poorest people in Bangladesh. poor women. We have 8 million borrowers. 97% of them — women. ...
- Blog Source: rezwanul.blogspot.com | 4 days agoThe original idea came from Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh's Nobel prize winner and an Adidas spokesman said "It is correct that Adidas Group in conjunction with Muhammad Yunus aims to put such shoes on the market." ...
- Blog Source: cocoperez.com | 4 days agoThe German activewear company announced on Friday that it will launch a project next year to make and distribute sneakers to the poor in Bangladesh, following the teachings of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who coined the ...
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