By Jill Moss Broadcast: November 10, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. In many developing nations, more than fifty percent of workers are self-employed. They

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Economics Report - Microcredit Is Expanding to New Products for the Poor This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Modern microfinance started with economist Muhammad Yunus. In the nineteen seventies, he started what became the Grameen Bank i

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Several days after Columbia University's Edmund Phelps won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his theories about the relationship between inflation and unemployment, the Noble Peace Prize was awarded to a man with some useful ideas about economics. Mu

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Kiva: How Anyone Can Become a Personal Lender of MicrocreditBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, August 28, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Sometimes a small l

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In Bangladesh, the Supreme Court has upheld an order dismissing microcredit pioneer Mohammad Yunus from Grameen Bank, which he founded. Following international pressure, however, the government has been in talks with the Nobel laureate to reach a com

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus gestures as he speaks to media representatives before the opening of Africa-Middle East Microcredit Summit in Nairobi, 6 Apr 2010 Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus is call

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