Laureate: Award highlights microcredit
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Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Saturday the prize has given momentum to his cherished program of helping the poor through small loans, bringing him flood of e-mails and invitations to meet with world leaders.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate says we need to devote global resources to education to end poverty.
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Luminaries from Hollywood to Washington increasingly view microfinance as the best way to use their wealth and celebrity to help the poor.
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Oslo - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 on Friday at a ceremony in Oslo, making her the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the prestigious award.
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WHEN Wangari Maathai got word she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she was busy with the work that earned her the prestigious award - campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to hungry constituents suffering from drought.
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Two economists known for their globally influential work on the forces behind economic booms and busts have won this year's Nobel Prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday.
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Description: Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott win the Nobel Prize in economic science. They will share the $1.3 million prize for their work in explaining how factors such as changes in economic policy and technology drive business cycles.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901...
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Norwegian and an American won the 2004 Nobel prize in economics Monday for their work in determining the consistency of economic policy and the driving force behind business cycles worldwide, work that has shown how the money supply
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BRUSSELS, Dec 7 (IPS) - In the International Year of Microcredit someone  should think also of micro-insurance for the poor, experts say.
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Wangari Maathai, Kenya&#39;s Deputy Environmental Minister and a former head of the National Council of Women of Kenya, became the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize last Friday for her work on issues such as education, nutrition, and women&#39;s rights.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to slow deforestation.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for her work planting tens of millions of trees  to save the environment. The award marks a new theme in  interpreting the 1895 will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, who  founded the prize.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - South African AIDS  campaigner Zackie Achmat knows he's a long shot for the Nobel  Peace Prize, but says his nomination is already a victory for  the millions of people around the world battling the epidemic.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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MIT is looking for a few good innovators to help the world's poorest billions thrive.