Don't Profit from the Poor, Says Grameen Bank's Yunus
By SUNITA SOHRABJI
indiawest.com
June 03, 2010
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. “ Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, speaking at the Fairmont H...
1.   Why Grameen Shakti? Global warming is an on-going over-riding issue in Bangladesh. So is the shortage of power. There is hardly any electricity in the rural areas. Eighty per cent of people of Bangladesh live in the rural areas. Seventy pe...
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Yunus said social busin...
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Written by Pacific Coast Business Times
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No, it does not avoid profit. The first aim of social business is to achieve the social objective in a financially sustainable way. It should not give up social objective to make profit beyond sustainability. Making profit without sacrificing social objective is welcome...
