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| | Muhammad Yunus Wins The Nobel Prize |
 | | Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, as the third of fourteen children. |
 | | After studying at the Chittagong Collegiate School and Chittagong College, and earning his BA and MA at Dhaka University, he came to the United States, where, in 1969, he got his PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University. |
 | | When in 1974, during the famine in Bangladesh, he failed to persuade a local bank to give villagers regular credit, he went on to establish a rural economic program, which reached out to the poor and those in severe debt. |
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