News VOA.com A new type of business is focused on making a difference in society as well as making a profit. Mike O'Sullivan reports, so-called social businesses are linking investors in the industrial world and entrepreneurs in developing countries.Social businesses ar...
by Carol Matlack Business Week Along with Grameen Group and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, the French food company has created a nutritious and inexpensive yogurt for Bangladesh At an ultra-modern research center in the Paris suburbs, scientists employed by Frenc...
The Independent  By Richard Orange in Mumbai Microfinance – making loans of just $100 to people earning a dollar a day – was pioneered by Bangladeshi Professor Muhammad Yunus (pictured) with his Grameen Bank. So far, banks have lent to microfinance inst...
By Amanda M. FairbanksThe New York TimesCity RoomProf. Muhammad Yunus at the ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the Grameen Bank America. (Photo: Erica Lansner) Enlarge this image. Wall Street may well be a global center of finance, with billions of dollars in capital flo...
Business WireHow Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90306) has announced the addition of "Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize W...
NEW YORK, NY April 26, 2008 —With a jumbo pair of scissors and a big round of applause, Dr. Muhammad Yunus officially opened Grameen America in Jackson Heights Friday. It's the first American branch of Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. REPORTER: More than three decade...
by Talal Malik ArabianBusiness.ComNobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is to headline the International Islamic Finance Forum (IIFF) with a full-day session on Sunday 13 April explaining his success in alleviating poverty through microfinance. Yunus will be holding a '...
Miss Xiong Ning, 1978 to Mar 10, 2008, died in a traffic accident on her way to Qinghai to help the poor people there. Below is the translation of a draft letter in Chinese that she wrote to Professor Yunus, which was found among the belongings she left behind.Dear......
Global povertyWe started the Millennium with the war on terror, and all our resources are concentrating on terrorism. AMY GOODMAN: “Banker to the poor,†Muhammad Yunus is the Bangladeshi economist who was awarded......
The Star.com Need can happen here, Nobel Prize-winning microcredit messiah tells business peopleMuhammad Yunus doesn't talk like a typical banker. He believes that access to credit is a fundamental human right.Nicknamed Bangladesh's "banker to the poor" for motivating a...
