2 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.
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How can you write such an article full of inaccuracies. Agha Khan has never won a Nobel Prize in Economics. The person who won a Peace prize, not an Economics Prize, was Muhamad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, and it was in 2006. The Nobel Committee praized him for using microcredit (small loans to the poor) to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh and other parts of the world.
JB