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Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and a microcredit pioneer.
In 1976 Mr. Yunus founded the Grameen Bank, a financial cooperative whose aim is to make credit available to the very poor. Mr. Yunus is its managing director.
Awards
- 1994 - Winner of the World Food Prize
- 1996 - Winner of the Simón Bolívar Prize of the UNESCO
- 1998 - Winner of the Sydney Peace Prize
- 2004 - Winner of The Economist newspaper's Prize for social and economic innovation.
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