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Ban Ki-moon visits micro-finance projects in Bangladesh

07/11/2008

Bangladesh is synonymous with micro-finance, where the Nobel-prize winning Grameen Bank has pioneered schemes which have helped millions of poor people to build a livelihood. During his recent tour of Asia, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spent a day in Bangladesh where he visited projects run by Grameen Bank. Dianne Penn reports.

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