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Turning poverty into peace

January 21, 2010 by Jurriaan Kamp

What the Nobel Peace Prize means to Muhammad Yunus - and how it shows the way new ideas come into the world. Jurriaan Kamp and Marco Visscher| December 2006 issue When Muhammad Yunus began to lend money to hard-working poor people back in the 1970s, he wasn’t exactly following … [Read more...] about Turning poverty into peace

The world champ of poverty fighters

January 21, 2007 by Jurriaan Kamp

Throughout the 11 years Ode has been in print, the name Muhammad Yunus has often cropped up, and microcredit has been a recurring theme. Yet it took us until last year to track him down in Bangladesh for an extensive interview. Now that Yunus will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on … [Read more...] about The world champ of poverty fighters

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