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Dr. Muhammad Yunus: Speech Archives
March 11, 2006: Mohammed Yunus Speaks at Fletcher on His Mission to Create a Poverty-free World through Grameen Ban  "The only place where poverty should be is in museums", according to Mohammed Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, as he spoke before a packed ASEAN auditorium on March 9 as part of the Charles Francis Adams lecture series.
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The Newsletter of The Microcredit Summit Countdown 2005 A speech by Muhammad Yunus  I was not trained to understand self-help. I was trained, like all students of economics, to believe that all people, as they grow up, should prepare themselves to get jobs at the job market. If you fail to get a job, you register yourself for government charity. But I could not hold on to these beliefs when I faced the real life of the poor people in Bangladesh. For most of them [the] job market did not mean much. For survival they turned to economic activities on their own. But the economic institutions and policies did not take notice of their struggle. They were rejected by the formal systems for no fault of their own....
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Global Advances in Health Care
A Key-note Speech by Dr. Muhammad Yunus,
Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
January 30, 2005
The World Health Care Congress Courtesy: World Health Care Congress  Good evening. I�fm very happy to be here, but wondering what I will say because everything I�fm supposed to say about the Grameen Bank is right in front of you, in these booklets. But I thought I would just say a few words about the background and how we got involved with it. You�fre probably wondering, as I am, what I�fm doing at a healthcare convention. When we began, there was no plan. There was no thought-out blueprint saying that, �gThis is what I should be doing, lending money to the poor people.�h That was not my job. I was teaching at a university in Bangladesh, at a time that happened to be one of the worst economic situations in the country. Read more Honorable President, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen
It is a great honour for me to receive the Nikkei Asia Prize 2004. When the news of my receiving the prize was communicated to me, it was quite a surprise for me. I was not expecting to win this prestigious prize. But being chosen for it made a big difference. This prize has inspired all of us in Grameen Bank for a very special reason. The name "Nikkei" represents the core of the economy and the media in Japan. Being recognized by Nikkei is like a dream come true. We have been struggling all a long, since we began to lend money to the poor in Bangladesh in 1976, to convince the world that what we are doing should be accepted as an integral part of business. We have been arguing that it is absolutely wrong of the financial institutions to reject the poor people by assuming that they are not creditworthy. I wanted to demonstrate in one village that banking can be done with the poor people without collateral and without risking the money. My demonstration was successful. But nobody took it seriously because it was done in one tiny village. So I expanded my work to several villages. Read more
Halving Poverty By 2015
--We Can Actually Make It Happen Muhammad Yunus Delivered at the Commonwealth Institute, London on March 11, 2003 Courtesy: Grameen Info .......... I have chosen to speak on the most daring of all Millennium Development Goals ? halving poverty by 2015. I have chosen it for two reasons. First, this is the most courageous goal mankind ever set for itself. For the last two decades I have been talking about creating a world free from poverty. I talk about it not because it is unjust to have a world with poverty, which is, of course, true. I talk about it simply because I am totally convinced from my experience of working with poor people that they can get themselves out of poverty if we give them the same or similar opportunities as we give to others. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world.... Read full speech
Expanding Microcredit Outreach to Reach the Millennium Development Goal- Some Issues for Attention
Muhammad Yunus International Seminar on Attacking Poverty with Microcredit, organized by PKSF in Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 8-9, 2003 Source: Grameen Info Microcredit Global Picture Microcredit Summit of 1997 set the goal to reach 100 million poorest families with microcredit, along with other financial services, preferably through the women in those families by 2005. In the recently held Microcredit Summit +5 in NY, we have just reviewed the progress towards achieving this goal during the last five years. Figures compiled by the Microcredit Summit Campaign show that by the end of 2001, more that 54 million families around the world have benefited from microcredit. Of this number, 26.8 million are among the poorest, or those who live under US $ 1 a day. This is impressive progress from 1997 when we could count only 7.6 million poorest families. Read more
IT can be Bangladesh's Super Highway to Prosperity Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank Key-note Address Delivered at the Tech-Transfer 2000 -- North America Conference
Held in Atlantic City, U.S.A. on April 28-30, 2000
Size of Bangladesh economy is very small. Size of the population of the country is very big. In the past nobody in the world noticed us because of the tiny economy. We do not show up in the world map because we do not feature as a serious market for buying or selling. All these can change now. Bangladesh can become a familiar name in the world market if we take advantage of the new technologies, particularly Information Technology, which are changing the world dramatically. Stage is already set. In the previous decade the world has just seen the tip of these changes. Next decade will unfold scenarios which will redefine the lives of people around the world. Read more
GAcceptence Speech on Petersberg Prizeby Proff. Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director of Grameen Bank, Bangladesh Courtesy: Grameen Info ...... What Grameen Bank has done is simply to take advantage of the synergy between micro-credit and ICT and help the poor women to exploit the market opportunity that exists around them. Before launching the project when we presented the Village Phone Project to the professional people they expressed serious doubt about the capacity of the illiterate women to understand this state-of-the-art telecommunication technology. They argued that the poor women are good only for handling traditional activities, such as, raising chicken and cow, making baskets, selling vegetables. It is ridiculous to think about telecommunication business for people who have never seen a telephone, or even electricity, in their lives. .....Read more
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