Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who founded the practice of microcredit as a means to combat global poverty, visited Quinnipiac on March 6 to deliver a free community lecture, "Microcredit and Social Business for Poverty Reduction." Yunus also participated in t...
Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus will deliver the lecture on "Microcredit and Social Business for Poverty Reduction" on 6 March 2013 at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, USA. The lecture will be streamed live to the public starting local time 7:00 pm We...
The book “গ্রামীন ব্যাংক ও মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস (২০১১, ২০১২)” edited by Shamsul Hussain is now available in the market. Prominent persons like teachers, journalists, civil society representatives, dev...
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced today that they will hold a U.S. Capitol ceremony next month to p...
A former regional director of Royal Bank of Scotland has been appointed to oversee the introduction of the Grameen micro-lending system to the UK.
Kevin Cadman was chosen as chief executive by the Grameen Scotland Foundation.The original Grameen bank was founded in Ban...
Jose Ramos-Horta and Prof. Muhammad Yunus
One of the fundamental challenges of a democracy is how to ensure the voice of the majority does not trample the essential rights of the minority. In the founding of the United States this was addressed by the Bill of Rights,...
Professor Muhammad Yunus has opened the 2nd Social Business Design Lab at Yunus Centre on 16 February 2013 with his introductory speech. Participants from different organizations presented four social business plans and they are- development of sustainable small hol...
The book “প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনুসের গ্রামীন ব্যাংকের লড়াই”by Selina Siraj and Shipra Chakraborty is now in the market. The book reveals the life and works of Professor Muhammad Yunus, h...
Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Denmark in January 2013 where he attended in a day-long conference as a chief guest on 'Social Business' in Copenhagen. Denmark's Foreign Ministry in cooperation with the Confederation of Danish Industries arranged the co...
AT times, it is the people who do not intend to engrave their names on stone tablets or in history books that win a meaningful mark in history - not through flamboyance nor notoriety but through the pure intention of improving society.Prof Muhammad Yunus is one of these...
