Halifax, CANADA: Managing Director of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus speaks at the opening of the 2006 Global Microcredit Summit 12 November 2006 in Halifax. The small business loans known as microcredit can help lift tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, who mainly live across Asia, out of poverty and turn them into budding entrepreneurs. The summit runs until 15 November. AFP PHOTO/David BOILY (Photo credit should read DAVID BOILY/AFP/Getty Images)