#5, Muhammad YunusImage: Carlos Alvarez / Getty ImagesField: EconomicsPosition: Managing Director of Grameen BankWhy He Was Nominated: He used his brain to make a dent in the fight against poverty. This "banker to the poor" from Bangladesh is the originator of the innov...
Mayor Yuri Luzhkov welcomes Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at the Mayor's Office in Moscow on November 16.The Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov has announced his decision to implement social businesses to address numerous urban social and economic problems. He had a...
Vice President of China Xi Jinping met Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at his office at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 30, 2009. They discussed the launching of two Grameen operated microcredit companies named as Songpan-Aba Grameen Micro-Cre...
Professor Yunus signing the MoU with Governor Muñoz.Caldas is an economically underdeveloped department in the Paisa region of Colombia. While it was once one of the country’s biggest coffee producers, it has since been experiencing a depression due to the col...
Mayor Yury Luzhkov told Nobel Prize-winning banker Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday that his ideas about microcredit had spurred City Hall to open a program offering quick, small loans to small businesses.Yunus — a Bangladeshi banker who together with his bank won the 2...
The Philosophy and Economics Program of the University of Bayreuth bestowed the Bayreuth Leadership Award upon outstanding individuals, in recognition of his thought and actions both of which meet the ethical and economic ideals of Philosophy and Economics. Laureates ...
The move from the company more usually associated with expensive footwear and celebrity sponsorship was inspired by Bangladesh's Nobel prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of micro-loans which help the poor start their own businesses. He told the company, which has...
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Germany's Otto Group has signed a deal with Grameen Trust to start a joint venture in textiles in Bangladesh, Yunus Centre said in a statement yesterday.Under the deal, Grameen and Otto will jointly set up Grameen Otto Trust and Grameen Otto Textile Company.Grameen Otto...
Yunus Centre Press ReleaseDr Michael Otto, Chairman of the Otto Group, the world’s largest mail order company, today signed an agreement with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to begin a joint venture in the field of textiles in Bangladesh.The Otto Group is...
