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Muhammad Yunus - Microcredit and Social Business for a Poverty-Free World (2010), IDRC

Microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh more than 25 years ago. Since then, millions of rural poor — mostly women — have received small loans for self-employment projects that have helped lift their families out of poverty. The bank's model has been replicated in more than 100 countries, and microlending has become an important tool in the fight against global poverty. Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has worked with Yunus and the Gr