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Muhammad Yunus [a] (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, businessman, and politician who has been serving as Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. [1] Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance . [ 2 ]
The announcement of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm. The winner of the prize was Paul Krugman.. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and ...
Yunus and the Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, after lending a total of about $6 billion in housing, student and micro-enterprise loans, and specifically in support of ...
The Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty in the country of Bangladesh. Grameen became famous for pioneering the concept of ...
An economist and banker by profession, Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people, particularly women. The Nobel Peace Prize committee credited Yunus and his Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.”
Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus takes over as the head of Bangladesh's caretaker government on Thursday at a time when the country is facing tough economic challenges. Yunus ...
Muhammad Yunus and his founding Grameen Bank jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the contribution of the concept of the microcredit concept. 2019: Abhijit Banerjee (Hooghly, West Bengal) USA [a] Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his outstanding work to eradicate poverty in the field of Economics [4]