Below is the transcript of Representative Rush Holts speech in support of the legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Professor Yunus. Rep. Holt represents New Jersey's 12th District in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the United States Cong...
Japan's leading agro-company Yukiguni Maitake Co. (YMC), Ltd today signed a joint venture agreement with Grameen Krishi Foundation (GKF) for establishing a new social business in the field of agriculture. The joint venture aims to produce high quality mung beans in Bang...
Says leading economist
Bangladesh's microfinanciers could "step in to fill the gap" left by the government's limited ability and market's failures to bring healthcare services to the people, a leading health economist said yesterday.
Microcredit could be evaluated as ...
$27: How much it took for one professor of economics to change the world
By Tamarah Feder
Since the early 1970s, Dr. Muhammad Yunus has been making the world a better place for millions living in dire poverty but who possess an entrepreneurial drive. The 2006 Nobel Pe...
Professor Cam Donaldson, Yunus Chair and Director of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at the Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) paid a visit to the Yunus Centre, Dhaka on the 6th of October. Professor Donaldson, who has worked for the past 25 years on H...
On the 5th of October, 2010 President Obama signed into law the Congressional Bill which awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to Professor Yunus.
The press release from the Office of the Press Secretary of the White House reads: "S. 846, which provides for the award of...
By Andrew Moran
From: Digital Journal
Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, has a suggestion for the government of Canada, which could change the way governments around the world provide foreign aid: A fraction of aid could be dedicated t...
Watch "The Simpsons" on Sunday, Oct. 3, as Lisa teams up with microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate, to teach Springfield an important lesson about financial success and social good. Professor Yunus makes a specia...
Professor Cam Donaldson, Yunus Professor and Director of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and
Health at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), Scotland will be visiting the Yunus Centre in Dhaka on 3rd through 7th October, 2010. During his time here in Dhaka, Profess...
Professor Yunus will be at the Beatty Lecture Series at McGill Uni to talk about how Social Business can be used as a platform to give to others sustainability.
The lecture will be broadcasted live on 2nd October 2010 from noon to 2pm Quebec local time on http://www.go...
