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Muhammad Yunus

Founder of Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. His new book is titled A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions.

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Muhammad Yunus on Microfinance, Grameen Bank & How 5 Men Own More Wealth Than Half the World

StorySep 27, 2017

Nobel Peace Prize Winners Call for U.N. Security Council to Protect Rohingya from Attacks in Burma

StorySep 27, 2017

Muhammad Yunus on Achieving a World with Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment & Zero Emissions

StoryFeb 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

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