Nobel winner: 'Social businesses are the future' Muhammad Yunus tells Stanford students to explore the untapped energy and talent of just plain people around the worldNobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus urged Stanford students to use their talents to develop "social...
The Times Winning thousands of dollars could really be the start of something big, especially for an economist, but Muhammad Yunus is not interested in personal fortune. He decided that his share of the $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize that he won in 2006 would be used to...
Grameen Healthcare Trust and GE Healthcare announces partnership to explore social business healthcare delivery models for Bangladesh and other countries of the developing world Grameen Healthcare Trust and GE Healthcare announce...
Michel Euler/Associated PressAt Davos, Bill Clinton greets Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, with Tony Blair, Jet Li and Bill Gates. Michel Euler/Associated PressAt Davos, Bill Clinton greets Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, with Tony Blair,...
Deseret News editorialWorld poverty won't be solved by grand schemes or government programs. As the worldwide microcredit movement has demonstrated, it will be solved one person at a time.Incredibly, that approach has now reached more than 100 million individuals, which...
It was different from the usual report on Bangladesh in German dailies.The sporadic reporting on Bangladesh here is virtually confined to something "dramatic" only, usually a disaster, natural or man made.The recent overwhelming vote for democracy and rejection of the r...
Can Malaysian banks know their customers without relying on the 'bad debtors' database system? The answer is 'yes'. One only has to study the efforts made by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist and his Grameen Bank.The Grameen Bank has rev...
By: Lee Brodie  CNBC InterviewTopics: Stock Market | Stock PicksAfter a year in which we saw capitalism do so much bad we forget the power of free markets can do so much good. However, one man didn't forget. In fact, he embodies that vision. His name, Muhammad Yu...
By Larry Donohue The Seattle Times Only about half of U.S. development assistance is primarily for the purpose of reducing poverty. Use establishments benchmarks to reform foreign aid by focusing on the poorest, setting targets based on measurable goals and monitoring r...
Microcredit: Economic successThere's another economic story besides the crash-down effects of policies relying on superwealth, greed and speculation. It's the success of the microcredit system.Once written off by banks, many of the world's poorest people now have a cred...
