CGAP today released the following statement from Tilman Ehrbeck, CGAP CEO, and Vijay Mahajan, Chair of CGAP's board, on the efforts to remove Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank: "We are deeply concerned by the campaign of the past fe...

By Mahfuz Anam Can a technicality be the main measure of judging a man of Yunus' stature? So after all the talk of "blood sucking" and "siphoning off billions" the real guilt of our one and only Nobel Laureate and globally admired microcredit pioneer and Grameen B...

The University of Florence visited the Yunus Centre in September and began creating a social business centre at the University. Then in January, a memorandum of understanding was signed, making official the partnership between the University of Florence and the Yunus Ce...

By Professor Muhammad Yunus Published in the New York Times on 01/14/2011 IN the 1970s, when I began working here on what would eventually be called "microcredit," one of my goals was to eliminate the presence of loan sharks who grow rich by preying on the poor. In ...

by Zafar Sobhan It was only a matter of time. If we thought that our prime minister's bizarre vendetta against Bangladesh's only Nobel laureate was an embarrassment we could keep hidden from the outside world, we were sadly mistaken. On January 5, the Econom...

Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2006. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Grameen Bank and I are deeply honoured to receive this most prestigious of awards. We are thrilled an...

Uniqlo Social Business Bangladesh Ltd.- the social business division of Uniqlo, Japan's leading clothing retailer, signed a joint venture agreement today with Grameen Healthcare Trust to establish a new social business in the field of functional clothing, with a focus o...

The second Global Social Business Summit, a two-day conference designed for the academics, businessmen, technology leaders and young people practicing and promoting social business, starts tomorrow in Germany. The November4-5 summit will dwell on social business experi...

Yunus emphasises efforts to reach out to the poor through social business and technology. From: www.thedailystar.net The advanced world of technology should open its doors to social business to solve some crucial problems facing the poor, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yun...

A book review of "Creating a World Without Poverty". By Jeevan Karki From: www.ekantipur.com Half the world's population lives on US $ 2 a day and over a billion people live on less than a dollar a day. Poverty is the deprivation of basic needs and opportunities every...