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Monica Yunus was born in 1977 in Chattogram, Bangladesh to Muhammad Yunus, an economist and his then wife, Vera Forostenko, the daughter of Russian immigrants to Trenton, New Jersey. She has one younger half-sister, Dina Yunus. [3] Yunus' parents met in 1967 while attending Vanderbilt University. They were married in 1970.
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 ]
Muhammad Yunus, 84, is heading an interim government following the toppling of the South Asian country’s prime minister and dissolution of parliament, ... 2024. - K M Asad/AFP/Getty Images.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh, and also is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Mohammad Younus (or variants such as Mohammad , Mohammed , Muhammad and Yunus , Younis ) may refer to:
Muhammad Yunus, who received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the use of microcredit to alleviate poverty, was convicted in January of violating Bangladesh’s labor laws and sentenced to ...
Yunus grew to global renown in the 1970s for pioneering poverty-reducing microcredit. What began with a single $5 loan to a woman weaving bamboo stools in his home city of Chittagong has since ...
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Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus will lead an interim government in Bangladesh after protests ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A Nobel laureate and microfinance pioneer steps in to lead ...