Mexican billionaire, Bangladeshi Nobel Prize winner to offer microcredits to Mexico’s poor

September 30, 2008 7:01 pm

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and Bangladeshi Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus are joining forces to offer credit to poor people in Mexico.Slim and Yunus are creating Grameen-Carso, a lending institution that in its first phase will provide at least 80,000 loans.

Slim is committing at least US$45 million to the venture, which they expect to expand to other parts of Latin America.

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