ForbesMuhammad Yunus: Nobel Peace Prize WinnerMuhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 along with his Grameen Bank for pioneering the concept of micro-finance in his native Bangladesh--a financial model that has now spread across much of the Third World and intr...
AFPMicrofinance unscathed by financial crisis: YunusGENEVA (AFP) — The financial crisis has not hit the microfinance system, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said Thursday, as he called for tougher regulations to prevent such shocks in future."One good new...
The Daily StarNobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) speaks as Steve Gunderson (L), president and CEO, Council on Foundations and Rick Warren (R), Pastor, Saddleback Church listen, at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York.The Daily StarNobel laureate Muhammad Yunus...
VOA NewsBillionaire, Nobel Prize Winner Team Up to Help Poor MexicansOne of the world's wealthiest men is teaming up with a Nobel Peace Prize winner to help impoverished people in Mexico.Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim and microfinance expert Muhammad Yunus said Monda...
I interviewed the founder of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus recently and asked him about the current financial crisis gripping the US and the world. He laughed and said that Grameen Bank’s portfolio of micro-loans to poor people in Bangledesh and elsewhere was more ...
Spiegel Online'Capitalism Has Degenerated into a Casino' Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus says that greed has destroyed the world's financial system. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about the profit motive, social consciousness and what should be done to end the ...
Dear Editor,Your report based on the video interview published in Business Week on October 13, 2008 entitled "Muhammad Yunus on the Financial Crisis" misrepresented my views on what I believe is needed to tackle the current global financial crisis.The interview quotes m...
Press ReleaseMarket Watch-Weekend EditionCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov 07, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Paradigm Shift, a Colorado non-profit, is training South African churches to fight poverty in their communities by utilizing the highly successful tool of microfina...
Gabriel MadwayThe global financial crisis can become an opportunity to help the world's worst off, says the Nobel Peace Prize laureate known as the "banker to the poor."World leaders could encourage new types of lending that would let the poor take themselves out of pov...
Nobel winner: 'Social businesses are the future' Muhammad Yunus tells Stanford students to explore the untapped energy and talent of just plain people around the worldNobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus urged Stanford students to use their talents to develop "social...
