A microfinance pioneer from Pakistan — who developed an interest-free microfinance programme — was among Tuesday's winners of Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Muhammad Amjad Saqib, 64, won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his “ first-of-its-kind ” interest-and collateral-free microfinance programme that catalysed scores of poor households. Nearly two decades after its launch, Akhuwat — founded by Dr Saqib — has grown into the nation's largest microfinance institution, distributing the equivale

MANILA( AFP)-A Bangladeshi scientist who helped develop a cheap oral vaccine against cholera, a Pakistani microfinance pioneer and a Filipino fisherman were among Tuesday's( Aug 31) winners of Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Firdausi Qadri, 70, was one of five recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award-named after a Filipino president killed in a plane crash-for her" life-long devotion to the scientific profession" and" untiring contributions to vaccine development". Working at the Internatio

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