By : Muhammad YunusMicrocredit Summit of 1997 set the goal to reach 100 million poorest families with Microcredit, along with other financial services, preferably through the women in those families by 2005. In the recently held Microcredit Summit +5 in NY, we have just...
By : Muhammad YunusEvery year Grameen Bank (GB) staff evaluate their work and check whether the socio-economic situation of GB members is improving. GB evaluates poverty level of the borrowers using ten indicators. A member is considered to have moved out of poverty if ...
By : Muhammad YunusApril, 2009 Grameen Bank methodology is almost the reverse of the conventional banking methodology. Conventional banking is based on the principle that the more you have, the more you can get. In other words, if you have little or nothing, you get not...
By : Muhammad YunusMany of the problems in the world remain unresolved because we continue to interpret capitalism too narrowly. In this narrow interpretation we create a one-dimensional human being to play the role of entrepreneur. We insulate him from other dimensions...
By : Muhammad YunusHave you ever seen a bank with no telephones, no typewriters, no carpets, no loan agreements, and, mostly, run by women? Well, difficult as it is to believe, there is one: The Grameen Bank. Grameen is not noticeably ?bank-like?E But it does lend money...
By : Muhammad YunusGlobalization can help us overcome poverty quickly, if we can prepare our poor to participate in the globalize market. Most important thing is the participation. We must bring IT to the poor, to participate in and take advantage of globalization. If w...
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank Key-note Address Delivered at the Tech-Transfer 2000 -- North America ConferenceHeld in Atlantic City, U.S.A. on April 28-30, 2000 Size of Bangladesh economy is very small. Size of the population of the country is very big. In the past nobo...
Muhammad YunusInternational Seminar on Attacking Poverty with Microcredit, organized by PKSF in Dhaka, BangladeshJanuary 8-9, 2003Source: Grameen InfoMicrocredit Global Picture Microcredit Summit of 1997 set the goal to reach 100 million poorest families with microcredi...
We Can Actually Make It HappenMuhammad YunusDelivered at the Commonwealth Institute, London Courtesy: Grameen InfoI am very honoured to have been invited to give the Commonwealth Lecture 2003. This is a great privilege for me. I would like to take advantage of this occa...
Speech by Muhammad YunusCourtesy: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (NIKKEI)Honorable President, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a great honour for me to receive the Nikkei Asia Prize 2004. When the news of my receiving the prize was communicated to me, it ...
