By Naimul Haq
DHAKA, Oct 18, 2011 (IPS) - Reducing poverty in Bangladesh will depend critically on sustaining the successes of the country's microcredit (MC) programmes, says Muhammad Yunus, the economist who shared the 2006 Nobel peace prize with his creation, Grame...
In 2010, UNIQLO started a social business* in Bangladesh with Grameen Healthcare Trust.
The social business will produce truly great clothing in Bangladesh and sell it at affordable price...
BY TRENTON DANIEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Economist Mohammad Yunus was the consummate storyteller, a fount of ideas on how to change Haiti.
Visiting from his native Bangladesh, the Nobel peace laureate poured out tale after tale Friday of how hi...
On June 28th, 2011 Yunus Centre announced an essay competition for university students in Bangladesh. The theme for the essay competition was "Achieving the MDG goals through social Business". Students had until July 31st to submit their essay. Yunus Centre then went th...
By Thomas Kostigen
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) - "If we change the banks' mind, the whole world will change," wrote Muhammad Yunus at the opening of Grameen America's New York City branch last year.
His timing couldn't be better. Yunus's Grameen America bank is...
The University System of Georgia is to host on Oct. 17 an economic development conference that is to showcase student-initiated business plans addressing social issues facing Georgia communities.
Muhammad Yunus, the acknowledged founder of the "microcredit" concept, is...
Opening remarks to the Banking for International Settlement Conference: Financial inclusion and the regulation of microfinance
By Muhammad Yunus
Financial crises illustrate a fundamental flaw in the way the current financial system is organized. The fin...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in New York, where he attended the MDG Advocacy Group meeting on 20th September 2011. The meeting was presided over by President Kagame of Rwanda, who is the co-chair of the Group, created by the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon....
BHUBANESWAR: The farmers of the State will now have better technological expertise to increase crop output with the launch of e-Agro business initiative.
E-Agro is a joint venture of Intel and Grameen Intel Social Business (Bangladesh). This is a model programme where ...
By Prof Tan Sri Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin
UKM's laureate-in-residence believes that society's most pressing problems can be solved through social business, a revolutionary idea that has caught on around the world.
A GREAT man came to fulfil his laureate...
