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...borrowers are typically hardworking, motivated, reliable and themselves altruistic, often creating collective, grassroots enterprises that benefit the whole community. Yunus' Grameen Bank now lends $800 million a year to nearly 7 million Bangladeshis, and boasts a 99% repayment rate. His work over three decades earned him this year's Nobel Peace Prize. "Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty," the Nobel Committee wrote in its citation. "Muhammad Yunus has shown himself to be a leader who has managed to translate visions into practical action for the benefit of millions...
...national student advocacy group, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, officially released the Philadelphia Consensus Statement on University Policies for Health Related Innovations, which calls upon universities to adopt research and technology transfer policies that promote global health. The growing list of signatories include Harold Varmus and three other Nobel laureates; Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor and Co-Founder of Partners in Health; Jim Kim, Director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Center for Health and Human Rights and Former Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of HIV/AIDS; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth...
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, should be honored by TIME for his pioneering work in microcredit financing to help the fight against poverty around the world. Yunus has developed one of the most viable solutions to ease extreme poverty, and hopefully end it as well...
...Crimson has learned the names of 11 of the roughly 30 individuals on the committee’s list. While the rest of the list remains undisclosed, several other candidates mentioned by alumni and academics include 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner and Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, Cornell Provost Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews...
...Crimson has learned the names of 11 of the roughly 30 individuals on the committee’s list. While the rest of the list remains undisclosed, several other candidates mentioned by alumni and academics include 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner and Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, Cornell Provost Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews...