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Muhammad Yunus

Also known as Professor Muhammad Yunus, Muhammad Iunus

Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh

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Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and Nobel Peace Prize recipient who is known for his work in microfinance and poverty alleviation. He matters because his innovative approach to lending small amounts of money to poor people has influenced global efforts to reduce poverty and has earned him international recognition, including serving as Chief Adviser of Bangladesh.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1940
Works: 30

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Pennies a Day
Si può fare! Come il business sociale può creare un capitalismo più umano
Some suggestions on legal framework for creating microcredit banks
Vers un nouveau capitalisme
Building social business

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Type: Person
Active from: 1989-05-24

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Listeners: 188
Total plays: 960

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5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.”
“'I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.'”
“Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.”
“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.”
“Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty.”
“I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize2006
“for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”
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Encyclopedic overview

Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: মূহাম্মদ ইউনূস; born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist and statesman. Yunus pioneered the modern concept of microcredit and microfinance, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. He is the founder of Grameen Bank and the first Bangladeshi to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Following the July Uprising, he was appointed as the 5th chief adviser of Bangladesh, the head of the interim government, serving from 2024 to 2026.

Born in Hathazari, Chittagong, Yunus passed his matriculation and intermediate examinations from Chittagong Collegiate School and Chittagong College, respectively. He completed his BA from University of Dhaka and joined as a lecturer in Chittagong College. He obtained his PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University in the United States.

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