There is something noble, at last in fostering entrepreneurs and encouraging business — it is still the fast way to get out of poverty, and now the Nobel Prize is acknowledging it.

On Friday, Oct. 13, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and its founder, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to establish the microcredit movement, which involves the granting of small loans to poor people with no collateral, across the developing world.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s statement said it awarded the prize of $1.4 million to Yunus and the bank “for their efforts to create economic and social benefit from below.” The statement continued, “Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.”  More…