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Social Business Enterprise and a World Without Poverty

October 13, 2007

Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

David Ellwood dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

Microfinancing pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus shares the story of a bank that defies convention by lending small sums of money to the very poor. Microfinancing, he says, lifts the impoverished out of poverty by helping them become small-scale entrepreneurs.

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Topics: Business & Economics | People & Places | Politics & Public Affairs

Tags: Activism | Bangladesh | entrepreneur | microloans | millions of dollars | nobel laureate | Nobel Peace Prize | women's rights | Commercial | Community Building | Corporate Ethics | Family Issues | Non-Profit | Personal Finance | Indian | Philanthropy | Women's Issues

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