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 ...
Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in Seoul on 14-16 August to discuss social business with business and political leaders of South Korea.
H.E. Kim Moon-Soo, Governor of Gyeonggi province, who is interested in setting up a Social Business Fund in collabo...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a report released by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a program of the U.S.-based advocacy group RESULTS Educational Fund, nearly 9 million Indian households involved in microfinance - including approxima...
I would like to express my deep shock and sadness at the tragic and untimely demise of Mishuk Munier, Tareque Masud and their three colleagues in a road accident on Saturday. This has been an irreparable loss for Bangladesh, which has lost two of its most gifted sons. M...
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON , 08.13.11, 03:31 AM EDT
WASHINGTON -- ......
