On June 28th, 2011 Yunus Centre announced an essay competition for university students in Bangladesh. The theme for the essay competition was "Achieving the MDG goals through social Business". Students had until July 31st to submit their essay. Yunus Centre then went th...
By Thomas Kostigen
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) - "If we change the banks' mind, the whole world will change," wrote Muhammad Yunus at the opening of Grameen America's New York City branch last year.
His timing couldn't be better. Yunus's Grameen America bank is...
The University System of Georgia is to host on Oct. 17 an economic development conference that is to showcase student-initiated business plans addressing social issues facing Georgia communities.
Muhammad Yunus, the acknowledged founder of the "microcredit" concept, is...
Opening remarks to the Banking for International Settlement Conference: Financial inclusion and the regulation of microfinance
By Muhammad Yunus
Financial crises illustrate a fundamental flaw in the way the current financial system is organized. The fin...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in New York, where he attended the MDG Advocacy Group meeting on 20th September 2011. The meeting was presided over by President Kagame of Rwanda, who is the co-chair of the Group, created by the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon....
BHUBANESWAR: The farmers of the State will now have better technological expertise to increase crop output with the launch of e-Agro business initiative.
E-Agro is a joint venture of Intel and Grameen Intel Social Business (Bangladesh). This is a model programme where ...
By Prof Tan Sri Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin
UKM's laureate-in-residence believes that society's most pressing problems can be solved through social business, a revolutionary idea that has caught on around the world.
A GREAT man came to fulfil his laureate...
Nobel Laureate, economist and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus is in New York the week of September 18th because it's UN Week, and as one of the most respected men in the world, he has a message to deliver. We are honored that he has chosen to share his......
New York, New York, September 13, 2011: The latest documentary by award winning filmmaker Holly Mosher titled Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus - the first film looking at his work from microcredit to social business - will make it's debut at the United Nation...
By Zasheem Ahmed
The Journal of Social Business: Social Business and New Economics Paradigm. Issue: 2; published by the Centre for Development, Scotland.
Economic analysis is about understanding the workings of the economic system. Many elegant economic theories exist...
