Oslo, NorwayNobel lecture presented by Prof Muhammad Yunus at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. Oslo, NorwayYour Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses,...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Professor Muhammad Yunus
A very good afternoon to everyone: Dean Robertson, distinguished colleagues, alumni, friends & families and last but not the least, the students of Wharton’s graduating class of...
Background
Nature has bestowed the blessing of abundant fresh water on Bangladesh, in the form of numerous groundwater resources that are not too deep and are therefore easy to exploit. Nearly 8 million wells were bored during the 1970s and 80s, which now give almost 9...
Business objective will be to overcome poverty, or one or more problems (such as education, health, technology access, and environment) which threaten people and society; not profit maximization.
Financial and economic sustainability
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Courtesy: Grameen InfoWhat Grameen Bank has done is simply to take advantage of the synergy between micro-credit and ICT and help the poor women to exploit the market opportunity that exists around them. Before launching the project when we presented the Village Phone P...
Dr. Muhammad Yunus Capitalism is Interpreted too NarrowlyMany 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 entreprene...
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcr...
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 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...
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...
