|
|
Angola: Diplomat Meets Winner of Nobel Prize in Economics
 |
 |
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
2 May 2008
Posted to the web 5 May 2008
Abidjan
The Angolan ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Gilberto Buta Lutucuta met last Thursday in Abidjan city, with his highness, Aga Khan, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, who expressed his desire to visit the country.
At the occasion, Aga Khan said he wants to visit Angola with the intention to carry out a research, and as he has done in other countries, apply a rural development programme, with the installing of a micro-credit system.
In Côte d'Ivoire, where he paid a visit of some days, the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, was received by the Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo, and signed last Wednesday, a convention to install the first micro-credit agency, in Abidjan.
The international community decided to attribute the Nobel Prize in economics, to the Asian, Aga Khan, for the creation and installing of micro-credit, in the framework of his fight against poverty in rural areas.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright © 2008 Angola Press Agency. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections -- or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Make allAfrica.com your home page | RSS Feed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top | Site Guide | Who We Are | Advertising | Search | Subscribe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Questions or Comments? Contact us. Read our Privacy Statement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
