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Mohammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing director of Grameen Bank and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. He is author of the bestseller, Banker to the Poor. His latest book is Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism.
He joined us in the firehouse studio on February 12, 2008.
February 12, 2008: Nobel Laureate and “Banker to the Poor” Muhammad Yunus on Micro-Lending, Its Critics and the Bush Administration’s Negative Impact on Global Poverty
Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering a microcredit program that helps hundreds of thousands of impoverished Bangladeshis—mostly women—by providing small unsecured loans, which are then repaid. He is author of the new book Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism.
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