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Banking on the poor: banker wins Nobel peace prize for loans to poor
- Source :
- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication. November 10, 2006, Vol. 106 Issue 10, p1, 4 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- DHAKA, Bangladesh--Millionaire banker Muhammad Yunus will never forget the famine that struck Bangladesh in 1974. He was teaching economics at a university near the nation's capital. 'Hungry people were everywhere. [...]
- Subjects :
- Bangladesh -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects
Grameen Bank Bhaban -- Officials and employees -- Services -- Achievements and awards
Bankers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Achievements and awards -- Services -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects
Bank loans -- Social aspects -- Achievements and awards -- Services -- Economic aspects
Banking industry -- Officials and employees -- Services -- Achievements and awards -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects
Nobel laureates -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Achievements and awards -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects
Banking industry
News, opinion and commentary
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00113492
- Volume :
- 106
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.154079869