The lone South Asian who has attracted world attention more than anybody else, particularly for his highly acclaimed micro-credit system through a bank called the Grameen Bank, is Prof. Mohammad Yunus of Bangladesh. He was recently awarded the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace. Disarmament and Development for 1998. Prof. Yunus is probably the only Bangladesh who has received many such awards in the last couple of years from reputed world organisations, for his bank's laudable role in poverty reduction.