Muhammad Yunus in Melbourne. Picture: Jon Hargest Source: Herald Sun NOBEL Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus ignored all the rules of conventional banking when he set up micro lender Grameen Bank. "The richer you are the more attractive you are to a conventional bank,...
On 1 March the Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing in Bangladesh opened its doors to its first cohort of 40 nursing students. The college established by Glasgow Caledonian University in conjunction with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is aimed at raisi...
Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fuelled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. Beginning with a loan of $27 to a group of impoverished women in Bangladesh, Yunus went on to setup the Grameen Bank lifting mil...
Star Business Report Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says social business is the best tool to address social needs and create much-needed employment. “I see many exciting opportunities, mainly employment, in social businesses,†Yunus told a workshop on creati...
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Nobel peace prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus speaks at the concluding ceremony of an international conference on microcredit at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka yesterday.
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Photo: Star Staff Correspondent Nobel Laureate Prof Muham...
Peter Hartcher Muhummad Yunus has already produced one great breakthrough. He transformed the concept of aid by pioneering micro-lending, tiny loans as small as $20 to poor villagers, and has lifted many millions out of poverty as a result. He won the 2006 Nobel Peace ...
Star Business Report Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed yesterday made a clarion call from the same dais for the present and future generations to come forward to work for a better life of people. Yunus joined a reception accorded to Sir Abed on......
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Banesa Khatun says microfinance has lifted her from the poorest of the poor to a respectable, self-dependent woman. Photo: RAFIQUR RAHMAN
From little things big things grow. Rarely has this iconic refrain been more apt than in describing microfinanc...
Kathryn Wall News-Leader Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus shared the secret of his successful microfinance program Tuesday to a nearly packed Juanita K. Hammons Hall. His advice to battle poverty? Do the exact opposite of what traditional banks do. "The more y...
Press Release (Yunus Centre) Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus cuts a red ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Grameen Branch at the Old City Hall of Omaha, Nebraska on Monday 1, ...
