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A Bangladeshi economist, Muhammad Yunus, and the bank he founded 30 years ago won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for pioneering work in giving tiny loans to millions of poor people no commercial bank would touch destitute widows and abandoned wives, landless laborers and rickshaw drivers, sweepers and beggars.
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Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi, pioneered microcredit.