GRAMEEN BANK FOUNDER DELIVERS 7TH NELSON MANDELA ANNUAL LECTURE
17.07.2009
GRAMEEN BANK FOUNDER DELIVERS 7TH NELSON MANDELA ANNUAL
Following the global financial crisis, conventional banks have lost a trillion dollars, yet they are still not in favour of lending to the poor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said on Saturday 11 July. The Bangladesh banker and economist was giving the seventh Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg.
The lecture was attended by Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel. Yunus congratulated Mandela on his forthcoming 91st birthday.
"You are the most wonderful person alive today," he told Mandela. "I feel privileged to be on this planet while you are with us," Yunus added.
Edited from Sapa-www.iafrica.com
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