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Hasina has helped Yunus get Nobel

The LGRD minister has said it was Sheikh Hsaina who helped Muhammad Yunus get the Nobel Peace Prize by making him familiar globally, reports bdnews24.com.
"Had our prime minister Sheikh Hasina not introduced Muhammad Yunus at the Global Microcredit Summit in Washington, the economist would not become so familiar and win the Nobel Prize," Syed Ashraful Islam said on Saturday.
Addressing a programme in the city, he said, "She [Hasina] had also introduced microcredit worldwide through the [first] global summit in Washington [in 1997] in presence of US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the then US first lady, and the Queen Sophia of Spain and many more."
"Our country is a place of history distortions, and everyone forgets these," he told the programme, organised at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, marking the 12 years of Palli Daridro Bimochon Foundation (PDBF).
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the programme, addressed, among others, by state minister for LGRD Jahangir Kabir Nanak and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry Mohammad Rahmat Ali.
Known as microcredit pioneer, Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Grameen Bank, for their contributions to establishing peace through efforts to create economic and social development.
Without naming Yunus, Ashraf said the word 'microcrdit' was not invented by any particular economist. "It was PDBF which introduced it. If Nobel Prize is given for microcredit, it should go to PDBF."
Hasina has helped Yunus get Nobel,The then Awami League government founded PDBF in November 1999 and then prime minister Sheikh Hasina launched its activities on July 9 the next year.
Hasina was also present as chief guest at the programme organised to mark the 12 years of the government-run development organisation.
The organisation has been working for the elimination of rural poverty by ensuring social development, men-women equality and women's empowerment. Starting its activities in 139 upazilas, PDBF has now spread over 208 upazilas with 253 branches.

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