yunus was teaching economics at chittagong university
yunus was teaching economics at chittagong university
In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Prize for Peace. After teaching economics at Chittagong University from 1961 to 1965 Yunus won a Fulbright scholarship. He studied and taught at Vanderbilt University from 1965 to 1972 earning a Ph.D. in economics in 1969.
Muhammad Yunus – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
He received his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt in 1969 and the following year became an assistant professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University. Returning to Bangladesh Yunus headed the economics department at Chittagong University.
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In 1972 following studies in Bangladesh and the USA Yunus was appointed professor of economics at the University of Chittagong. When Bangladesh suffered a famine in 1974 he felt that he had to do something more for the poor beyond simply teaching. He decided to give long-term loans to people who wanted to start their own small enterprises.
Epiphanies Muhammad Yunus – Foreign Policy
Epiphanies Muhammad Yunus. I WAS TEACHING economics at the university in Chittagong Bangladesh in 1974 and the theories that I was teaching didn’t seem to be of much use to the...
About Professor Yunus Education
From 1969 to 1972 Yunus was an assistant professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University before moving back to Bangladesh where he joined Chittagong University as an economics professor. Yunus first got involved in fighting poverty during a 1974 famine in Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus | Encyclopedia.com
They divorced and Yunus returned taking a position teaching economics at Chittagong University where he was invited to head the Universitys economics department. In 1980 he would marry again this time to fellow Bangladeshi Afroji Yunus a physics professor and they would have a daughter Dina Yunus. Bailed Out Bangladesh.