Microcredit: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 (Premio Nobel Al Microcredito)
Aggiornamenti Sociali, Vol. 12, pp. 823-833, December 2006
11 Pages Posted: 5 Dec 2006
Abstract
This article proposes to analyze Grameen Bank operational system and its own evolution, illustrating the reasons for which to Professor Yunus's mission has been conferred an important award as Nobel Peace Prize 2006, evidencing the values that support this economics theory and the innovations that microcredit brings to the understanding of the economics phenomena.
[For their efforts to create economic and social development from below, M. Yunus and Grameen Bank - Nobel Peace Prize 2006]
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Keywords: Nobel Prize, Yunus, Grameen Bank, Microcredit, Poverty, Ethics in Economics
JEL Classification: D64, I31, L30, O10, R51
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