Series of initiatives designed to boost America's relations with entrepreneurs in countries with large Muslim populations
Meredith Buel | Washington28 April 2010
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Attendees of the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship listen as President Barack Obama s...
By Majed Al-MaimounRIYADH – As part of events for the Janadriya Festival, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus gave a lecture Saturday at the King Faisal Conference Center in Riyadh in which he spoke of his work to combat poverty.Yunus described the vario...
Dhaka, March 17 (bdnews24.com)—Amid mounting criticism over interest rate, Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus has admitted that microcredit interest should be standardised. "Tell us what the interest rate is, because people often say that it's high but don't kn...
Staff Correspondent (The Daily Star)
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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GULF Daily News
MORE than 4,000 needy families are set to benefit from a micro finance programme within three years, officials have announced.
The Family Bank, which has come into existence after a pioneering initiative of the Social Development Ministry and Banglad...
To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America/Bangladesh/USA (Director: Gayle Ferraro)—Tapping into the success of Muhammad Yunus after winning the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), Grameen America has opened in Queens, NY replicating the banking model program Yunus...
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...
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Official formation of Grameen Creative Lab (Wiesbaden)Professor Yunus will be present to sign the official papers formalizing the creation of the Grameen Creative Lab in Wiesbaden, Germany - the result of a Joint Venture between the Yunus Cen...
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...
As a man who started a bank to give out collateral-free loans to poor women, relying solely on their integrity, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has taught the world the power of trust. When you show faith in people, no matter how disadvantaged they are, they wil...
