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Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস; born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur banker economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.

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alma mater
University of Dhaka
award
Congressional Gold Medal, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, World Food Prize, Nobel Peace Prize
birth date
1940-06-28
birth place
Bangladesh, Chittagong, Presidencies and provinces of British India, British Raj
depiction description (caption)
Muhammad Yunus at World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland 25 January 2012.
field
Microcredit
institution
University of Chittagong
nationality
Bangladesh

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