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Muhammad Yunus, a proponent of microfinancing as a means to economic self-realisation, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his development of Grameen Bank, "banking for the poor". He is a powerful and passionate speaker, a humble man, and has great and patient vision. I am a little surprised that he did not win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics -- although I am not certain that the theory of microcredit is a great advance in economics, it certainly marks a departure from the mind-boggling statistics that dominates the field.