On 23 September, the House of Representatives of the US Government unanimously passed the bill to award Prof. Muhammad Yunus the Congressional Gold Medal. The Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States Congress and is, along with the Presidential...
Professor Yunus's Speech at the MDG Summit on 22nd September, 2010
MDGs are the most important decisions ever taken by mankind by a consensus to dramatically change the quality of life of all poor people on this planet. These decisions were taken at the UN with great ...
Professor Yunus Debates With Vikram Akula about Microfinance at CGI 2010
At the Clinton Global Initiative, FORBES was a fly in a conference room, attending a special session on: Profiting from the Poor? A Discussion on Microfinance IPOs. Vikram Akula, founder of SKS ...
Secretary General Bank Ki- Moon convened the second meeting on 22nd September of MDG Advocacy Group at the UN Head Quarters. Representatives of various countries and the media were invited to the meeting. First Lady of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser and Nobel Laure...
Recently Professor Yunus was in Atlanta, Where He Spoke about Social Business
By Mary SilverEpoch Times Staff
ATLANTA-Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics, but his academic knowledge had left him ignorant, he said at Atlanta University Center (AUC) on Aug. 27.
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Dominic Cummings meets Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize-winner who has the answer to some of the West's intractable problems. So why won't politicians listen to him?
One day in 1974, at the height of the famine in Bangladesh, an economics teacher from a nearby universit...
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs (PublicAffairs/2010) by Dr. Muhammad Yunus is an excellent rendition on how to invest in poor countries while getting a modest return and doing much good at the same time...
SolarWorld AG bestowed the 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award upon the Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen Bank Prof Muhammad Yunus
SolarWorld AG bestowed the 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award upon the Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen Bank P...
Nobel laureate pitches concept of 'social business'
by Sneh Duggal
The Nobel laureate who used micro loans to help Third-World entrepreneurs work their way out of poverty says its time for the developed world to change the way it does business.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus i...
The Banker to the poor suggests Growing Social Business at IACA
By Mahadev Desai
mmdesai@comcast.net
Despite the multi-stop fleeting Atlanta visit, it was heartwarming to learn that the ‘Banker to the Poor' had accepted the last minute invite and agreed to ma...
