By Eirik G. Jansen and Md. Nazibor Rahman The pace and atmosphere of the village was different. That was the first thing we noticed when we came back to Bhaimara after more than 30 years. At the end of the1970s, Bhaimara was a quiet small village, 60 km west of......

By Professor Muhammad Yunus Published in the New York Times on 01/14/2011 IN the 1970s, when I began working here on what would eventually be called "microcredit," one of my goals was to eliminate the presence of loan sharks who grow rich by preying on the poor. In ...

By Connie Evans Many of us who have worked in microfinance or more broadly, to help alleviate poverty in our communities know the great and almost insurmountable challenges that come along with trying to affect "change." Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank m...

by Zafar Sobhan It was only a matter of time. If we thought that our prime minister's bizarre vendetta against Bangladesh's only Nobel laureate was an embarrassment we could keep hidden from the outside world, we were sadly mistaken. On January 5, the Econom...

By The Economist online IN MUCH of the world Muhammad Yunus is known as the genial pioneer of microcredit and the winner of the 2005 Nobel peace prize. Yet in his native Bangladesh Mr Yunus's reputation is under attack. His supporters fear tha...

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF Very strange things are happening in Bangladesh these days. There seems to be a multi-pronged assault on Grameen Bank and on Muhammad Yunus, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role pioneering microfinance. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner ...

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. Lasting peace can ...

Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2006. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Grameen Bank and I are deeply honoured to receive this most prestigious of awards. We are thrilled an...

Speech given by The Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Ole Danbolt Mjøs (Oslo, December 10, 2006) Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Laureates, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize ...

M. Serajul Islam "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." - Mahatma Gandhi The controversy created in the country involving the name of Dr. Mohammad Yunus was unfortunate. It was unbelievable that the media and politicians reacted to the documentary sho...