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Grameen Bank
Grameen Bank is a microfinance organisation in Bangladesh that makes small loans without collateral to poor people, most of them rural women. Begun as a project by the economist Muhammad Yunus in 1976 and established as a bank in 1983, it pioneered group lending and influenced microcredit programmes worldwide. Yunus and the bank shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
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