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The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below". ==Muhammad Yunus== Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Grameen Bank, for their efforts to create economic and social development. In the prize announcement The Norwegian Nobel Committee mentioned: Yunus was the first Bangladeshi to ever get a Nobel Prize. After receiving the news of the important award, Yunus announced that he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million award money to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor; while the rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was a vocal advocate for the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Yunus. He expressed this in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine as well as in his autobiography ''My Life.'' In a speech given at University of California, Berkeley in 2002, President Clinton described Yunus as "a man who long ago should have won the Nobel Prize () I’ll keep saying that until they finally give it to him." Conversely, The Economist stated explicitly that Yunus was a poor choice for the award, stating: "...the Nobel committee could have made a braver, more difficult, choice by declaring that there would be no recipient at all." He is one of only seven persons to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom,〔("President Obama Names Medal of Freedom Recipients" ), White House Office of the Press Secretary, 30 July 2009〕 and the Congressional Gold Medal.〔http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ253/pdf/PLAW-111publ253.pdf〕 Other notable awards include the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1984,〔(Ramon Magsaysay Award, 1984: Citation for Muhammad Yunus ); ''Retrieved: 1 September 2007''〕 the World Food Prize,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. Muhammad Yunus – 1994 World Food Prize Laureate )〕 the International Simon Bolivar Prize (1996),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MUHAMMAD YUNUS RECEIVES 1996 INTERNATIONAL SIMON BOLIVAR PRIZE AT UNESCO )〕 the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nicolás Castellanos, Vicente Ferrer, Joaquín Sanz Gadea and Muhammad Yunus, 1998 Prince of Asturias Award for Concord )〕 and the Sydney Peace Prize in 1998,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1998 Professor Muhammed Yunus )〕 and the Seoul Peace Prize in 2006. Additionally, Yunus has been awarded 50 honorary doctorate degrees from universities across 20 countries, and 113 international awards from 26 different countries including state honours from 10 countries.〔Lists of his awards are found at (Yunus Centre website ), (his personal website ), and (his profile at Bangladesh News website ).〕 Bangladesh government brought out a commemorative stamp to honour his Nobel Award.〔(Sydney Peace Prize recipients ), Sydney Peace Prize Foundation website; ''Retrieved: 9 September 2007''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2006 Nobel Peace Prize」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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