Word: bangladeshis
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...nominate Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who won the Nobel Prize this year for his work in microlending. I am fully convinced that the best way out of poverty is through this kind of financing. I proposed him for Person of the Year in '05 as well--I think his ideas could change the world...
...Mohammed Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist, met a woman in Jobra, Bangladesh who was trying to earn a living by selling bamboo stools. She made only two pennies of profit a week, far from enough to sustain a family, as buying supplies required her to borrow from a local moneylender at extremely high interest rates. Yunus soon discovered that Jobra was filled with others just like her—women whose tiny ventures barely survived but had the potential to thrive if they could borrow money at reasonable rates...
...Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus began making tiny loans to the rural poor. The success of his charity led him to found Grameen Bank, pioneering microcredit. Yunus spoke to TIME's Ishaan Tharoor last week, moments before learning he and Grameen had won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize...
...when ICDDR was established as the Cholera Research Laboratory in 1960, its mission was to evaluate such treatments. By the late 1960s, the facility had begun experimenting with oral rehydration and, within a few years, fatalities among its diarrhea patients had dropped from 50% to zero. Across the Bangladeshi delta, oral rehydration was also gaining ground at the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. Teams at both centers knew they had an effective treatment - but they faced resistance from a profession that dismissed such a basic remedy as inferior to costlier IV saline fluids. The opportunity...
...about 5 million in 1980 to 3 million today. In Bangladesh alone, child mortality fell from 35% to 6% over the following 20 years. But far too many people are still dying from preventable diarrheal diseases. Today, according to unicef, diarrhea still claims the lives of 36,000 young Bangladeshi children a year. Infants like Sohag would perish if they didn't live near a hospital - because they were born to parents unfamiliar with oral rehydration. For the third time in 12 days, 6-month-old Ullash has been admitted to the ICDDR's children's ward; just...