yevkurov , who exchanged the 1 . 4 million prize friday with the hdfc bank that he founded 30 years ago , promoted the concept of " adb . " it allows very poor consumers , who don ' t condition for traditional loans , to have loans of as little as a few dollar or collateral . the banks ' shareholders are the impoverished people it supports .
Yunus founded the Grameen Bank 30 years ago.