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...
Nobel Laureate, economist and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus is in New York the week of September 18th because it's UN Week, and as one of the most respected men in the world, he has a message to deliver. We are honored that he has chosen to share his......
New York, New York, September 13, 2011: The latest documentary by award winning filmmaker Holly Mosher titled Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus - the first film looking at his work from microcredit to social business - will make it's debut at the United Nation...
By Zasheem Ahmed
The Journal of Social Business: Social Business and New Economics Paradigm. Issue: 2; published by the Centre for Development, Scotland.
Economic analysis is about understanding the workings of the economic system. Many elegant economic theories exist...
The generation of young delegates attending One Young World 2011 were described by Bangladeshi economist, banker, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus as the "luckiest generation in the entire human history" as he called for the creation of a social business fund...
The Yunus Centre is thrilled to announce the winners of our Social Business Essay Competition 2011. There were many, many qualified applicants, and reviewing the essays was truly a pleasure.
Our winning submissions were authored by:
Monica Islam - North South Universi...
Leading economist says education, employment are other factors.
Rural poverty in Bangladesh would have been 4 percent higher than what it is today, if microcredit had not existed, a noted economist said yesterday.
"There is no ground for belittling the contribution ...
