Introduction

“Banker for the Poor” and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus, believes that credit should be a human right. Although his success with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh shows the effectiveness of helping people out of poverty through the use of micro credit, many conventional banks as well traditional economists find this idea troubling. This paper will argue that access to credit should be a human right because, as illustrated through his and many other micro credit programs, it makes possible so many other human rights listed in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights which, as of now, are just words on a paper for billions of people.