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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Muhammad Yunus, Sheikh Hasina, Buddhadeb Bosu, Fazlur Khan, Tahrunessa Abdullah, Humayun Ahmed, Jahanara Imam, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Shamsur Rahman, Humayun Azad, Tareque Masud, Debabrata Basu, Atiur Rahman, Iajuddin Ahmed, Tajuddin Ahmad, Athar Ali Khan, Asaduzzaman Noor, Zahir Raihan, Faruk Ahmed, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Moudud Ahmed, Munier Choudhury, Nilima Ibrahim, Syed Nazrul Islam, Qazi Anwar Hussain, Leela Roy, Nripen Chakraborty, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Shafaat Jamil, Alamgir Kabir, Abdur Rahman Biswas, Akbar Hossain, Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, C. M. Shafi Sami, Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Dhiraj Kumar Nath, Abul Barkat, Kazi Golam Mahboob, Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Abdullah-Al-Muti, Abdul Kadir. Excerpt: Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: , pronounced ) (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit (small loans to poor people possessing no collateral) to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors. He is a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Chittagong University where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. He is the author of Banker to the Poor and two books on Social Business Models, and a founding board member of Grameen America and Grameen Foundation. In 1996, Yunus introduced mobile phones to rural villages. Grameen Intel is just one of hundreds of public and private partnerships now mediated through Youth & Yunus. In early 2007 Yunus showed interest in launching a political party in Bangladesh na...