The nobel prize winning economist, Muhammad Yunus delivered this year’s Romanes Lectures at the Sheldonian this year.He gave lecture, entitled ‘A poverty-free world: When? How?’, to guests at the Sheldonian on Tuesday 2nd December.
He focused particularly on the current global financial crisis and spoke of his
vision of a world free from poverty.
Yunus, originally from Bangladesh, founded Grameen Bank, which provides credit to the poorest people in Bangladesh.
Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2006 “fortheir efforts to create economic and social development from below.”
The Romanes Lecture occurs annually at the University. The first was given in
1892. Past speakers have included William Gladstone, Winston Churchill and IrisMurdoch.
A copy of each year’s lecture can be found at the Bodleian library
Nobel economist addresses University
