* Nobel Peace Prize Winner Calls Poverty a Threat to World Peace

by Lisa Bryant
Paris
10 December 2006

"Bangladeshi economist Muhammed Yunus called poverty a fundamental threat to peace as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.

Yunus said, ""We are creating a completely new generation that will be well equipped to take their families out of the reach of poverty. We want to make a break with the historical continuation of poverty."

Yunus also warned, "poverty generates hostility and anger, and that peace is impossible where poverty exists."

Hermann Muhammed Yunus, A Modern Ghandi