The generation of young delegates attending One Young World 2011 were described by Bangladeshi economist, banker, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus as the "luckiest generation in the entire human history" as he called for the creation of a social business fund...
The Yunus Centre is thrilled to announce the winners of our Social Business Essay Competition 2011. There were many, many qualified applicants, and reviewing the essays was truly a pleasure.
Our winning submissions were authored by:
Monica Islam - North South Universi...
Leading economist says education, employment are other factors.
Rural poverty in Bangladesh would have been 4 percent higher than what it is today, if microcredit had not existed, a noted economist said yesterday.
"There is no ground for belittling the contribution ...
Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in Seoul on 14-16 August to discuss social business with business and political leaders of South Korea.
H.E. Kim Moon-Soo, Governor of Gyeonggi province, who is interested in setting up a Social Business Fund in collabo...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a report released by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a program of the U.S.-based advocacy group RESULTS Educational Fund, nearly 9 million Indian households involved in microfinance - including approxima...
I would like to express my deep shock and sadness at the tragic and untimely demise of Mishuk Munier, Tareque Masud and their three colleagues in a road accident on Saturday. This has been an irreparable loss for Bangladesh, which has lost two of its most gifted sons. M...
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON , 08.13.11, 03:31 AM EDT
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Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus met Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at her office in the State Department on 11 August 2011. They discussed a broad range of issues relating to microcredit and social business as tools to fight poverty, and other issues ...
WASHINGTON -- The Nobel Peace Prize winner who invented microcredit presented his latest idea for combating poverty, "social business," to the State Department on Thursday.
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who has championed microfinance as a way to alleviate ...
Was Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus's sacking from the microlending bank he created part of a conspiracy to discredit and force him out?
Was it a conspiracy? Last November, a documentary aired on Norwegian television accusing Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Pr...
