President Barack ObamaPresident of the United States of AmericaWhite HouseWashington DCOctober 9, 2009Dear President Obama:Heartiest congratulations on receiving the greatest prize in the world – The Nobel Peace Prize.Right now you are the person with the high...
Micro Capital Press ReleaseNEW YORK, September 24 - Grameen Trust and Fundacion Carlos Slim A.C., the family charitable foundation of Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helu, have officially launched the Grameen Carso. The official documents have been signed and the operat...
LaTribune.fr Le défi de ce nouveau modèle économique est d'importance. Il s'agit, pour les actionnaires, d'attendre un retour sur investissement qui ne soit pas financier mais sociétal.La crise aura eu un mérite : celui de révéler les excès dâ...
CGI Returns to a Place Called Hope Each year, layer upon layer is added to the Clinton Global Initiative. Government leaders, philanthropists, corporate titans are all intricately choreographed into panel discussions, awards ceremonies, plenary presentations and commitm...
Business Week Posted by Steve Hamm Noble Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was his level-headed, provocative self this morning when my colleague, Jay Greene, and I met him at the Sheraton Hotel around the corner from our office. We asked him: How can the advocates...
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has gone few steps forward on his endeavour to make banking sector more pro-poor as he highly criticised the country's banks and financial institutions for their lukewarm approach to the poorer section of the society.The governor...
NEW YORK - (Business Wire) At the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City today, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, alongside President William Jefferson Clinton, announced the launch of the Grameen Nurse Institute, a new social business-based health care model that ...
During an interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, President Clinton discussed Professor Yunus, Grameen and Grameen America. The link to the interview is here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-17-2009/exclusive---bill-clinton-extended-interview-p...
UVA TodaySeptember 21, 2009 – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus is proof that ideas can start small and go on to change the world. Starting with a $27 loan to 42 Bangladeshi villagers in 1976, Yunus founded a bank that now makes more than $1 billion......
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) will provide Bangladesh with technical supports for expansion of renewable and clean energy as part of its initiative on creating green jobs worldwide. In this regard, according to the ILO sources here.Bureau of Manpower Emplo...
