- Muhammad Yunus Grameen Bank started out with a tiny initiative in the village of Jobra in 1976. In 1983 it became a formal bank. Now in 2014 it has over 8.5 million borrowers. Right from the beginning we paid attention to two things: 1) borrowers build the habit of......

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus continued his week in New York addressing the special session on Haiti at the Clinton Global Initiative participated by President Clinton, Mr Laurent Lamothe, Prime Minister of Haiti. Professor Yunus is a member of Presidential Ad...

Muhammad Yunus is a man who changed the world. Muhammad Yunus is a man who changed the world. By coming up with a way to lend poor people as little as $30 to start businesses, he reduced poverty so much that he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Now......

Life's Work: Muhammad Yunus An Interview with Muhammad Yunus by Alison Beard   Muhammad Yunus won a Nobel Peace Prize for spreading the concept of microcredit—tiny loans to help poor people start businesses—via his Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank. He r...

Establishment of Grameen Technology Lab Grameen Technology Lab (GTL), a Japanese foundation, is established on the Hakozaki Campus of Kyushu University, one of the biggest national universities in Japan, on December 24th, 2010. The mission of Grameen Technology Lab is...

The School concluded its year-long series of Bicentennial Chapel Talks this morning in distinguished fashion with honored guest Muhammad Yunus P’95, father of Monica Yunus ’95 and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. In introducing her father, Monica also...

Professor Yunus's Speech at the MDG Summit on 22nd September, 2010 MDGs are the most important decisions ever taken by mankind by a consensus to dramatically change the quality of life of all poor people on this planet. These decisions were taken at the UN with great ...

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 ...

Social Business - A Step Toward Creating a New Economic and Social OrderProfessor Muhammad YunusGrameen Bank, BangladeshLecture delivered at the joint-meeting of the members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha of India, in Delhi on December 9, 2009 Hon'ble Vice President, Hon...

Registration for this event is now closed. For the week of 4-11 November 2009, Professor Muhammad Yunus will be visiting Germany, for a week full of memorable meetings, official events, and the very first Global Grameen Meeting ever. His visit will begin in Wiesbaden, a...