The Bangladeshi Nobel laureate wins yet another award - this time for contributions to technology.He talks to Fortune about where tech might take the poor. NEW YORK (Fortune) -- "Technology is making more changes in our way of life than ever in human history," says Muha...
Daily StarNobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, now on a visit to Saudi Arabia, has brushed aside allegations in Saudi media that a large number of Bangladeshis are breaking the law in the kingdom.Any people can turn to crimes anywhere and so it is not fair to single out ...
New York TimesMexicoCarlos Danel and Carlos Labarthe turned a nonprofit that lent money to Mexico's poor into one of the country's most profitable banks. But not all of their colleagues in the world of microlending — so named for the tiny loans it grants —...
LondonDuring a meeting at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus highlighted the extreme difficulties created on the poor by the global rise in prices of essential food items.LondonDuring a meeting at 10 Downi...
BusinessWeekWhen the Bottom Line Is Ending Poverty -Creating a World Without Poverty:Social Business and the Future of Capitalism By Muhammad YunusMuhammad Yunus is a humble man who would resist being compared to Mahatma Gandhi. But the two have much in common as campai...
United Arab EmiratesMuhammad Yunus, founder and MD of micro-credit bank Grameen has called for more emphasis on social businesses that help the poor. 'Take off your profit maximising glasses and put on your social business glasses and the world will look so different,' ...
Professor Muhammad Yunus on the cover page of Newsweek as one of the world's Superclass of influential thinkers and personalities of our day. ...
GuardianA comprehensive global plan is needed to tackle the high cost of food that threatens the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people The global food crisis is a dire reality for millions of the world's poor and a major test for the international comm...
Daily StarGaziul Hasan Khan looks at the options in the Nobel laureate's new bookNobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of collateral free small credit to poor women, is in quest of harnessing free market power to solve the problems of poverty, hunger ...
foreignpolicy.com They are some of the world’s most introspective philosophers and rabble-rousing clerics. A few write searing works of fiction and uncover the mysteries of the human mind. Others are at the forefront of modern finance, politics, and human rights....
