which indian university did muhammad yunus start teaching in 1972
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Inspired by the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, Prof Yunus returned to that country in 1972, and joined the Economics Department of University of Chittagong after a brief spell in the Planning Commission.
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After a brief stint with the Planning Commission, Prof Yunus returned to Bangladesh in 1972 and joined the Economics Department of the University of Chittagong.
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- Professor Yunus was born in the Bangladeshi port city of Chittagong in 1940 and attended Dhaka University before receiving a Fulbright grant to study economics at Vanderbilt University.
- In 1969, he got his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University, and the following year, he joined Middle Tennessee State University as an assistant professor of economics. Yunus returned to Bangladesh and became the chairman of Chittagong University's economics department.
- Professor Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, motivated by his view that credit is a basic human right.
- His goal was to assist impoverished people in escaping poverty by offering loans on their terms and teaching them a few good financial principles so that they could help themselves.
- Professor Yunus served on the International Advisory Group for the Fourth World Conference on Women from 1993 to 1995, a position to which he was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General.
- He has served on the UN Expert Group on Women and Finance, the Global Commission on Women's Health, and the Advisory Council for Sustainable Economic Development.
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