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| Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2006 (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-lecture-en.html) . |
| “Poverty is a Threat to Peace” |

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| Source: Please see the BDRC's research on Aid and Debt for further details. |
| Bangladesh, a country with 40 million persons living below $1 a day, deserves debt relief and more aid. As the following figure shows, the share of aid (net official development assistance (ODA)) provided to Bangladesh has fallen drastically since 1987. |