Star Business Report Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says social business is the best tool to address social needs and create much-needed employment. “I see many exciting opportunities, mainly employment, in social businesses,†Yunus told a workshop on creati...
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Nobel peace prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus speaks at the concluding ceremony of an international conference on microcredit at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka yesterday.
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Photo: Star Staff Correspondent Nobel Laureate Prof Muham...
Peter Hartcher Muhummad Yunus has already produced one great breakthrough. He transformed the concept of aid by pioneering micro-lending, tiny loans as small as $20 to poor villagers, and has lifted many millions out of poverty as a result. He won the 2006 Nobel Peace ...
Star Business Report Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed yesterday made a clarion call from the same dais for the present and future generations to come forward to work for a better life of people. Yunus joined a reception accorded to Sir Abed on......
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Banesa Khatun says microfinance has lifted her from the poorest of the poor to a respectable, self-dependent woman. Photo: RAFIQUR RAHMAN
From little things big things grow. Rarely has this iconic refrain been more apt than in describing microfinanc...
Kathryn Wall News-Leader Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus shared the secret of his successful microfinance program Tuesday to a nearly packed Juanita K. Hammons Hall. His advice to battle poverty? Do the exact opposite of what traditional banks do. "The more y...
Press Release (Yunus Centre) Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus cuts a red ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Grameen Branch at the Old City Hall of Omaha, Nebraska on Monday 1, ...
The Grameen Caledonian Nursing College, the very first Grameen Nurse Institute, was launched in the Mirpur area of Dhaka on March 1, 2010. The 40 students are currently going through orientation and will begin classes on March 7. The College is a new organization follow...
On February 28, seven members of the Yunus Centre team, headed by the Centre's Executive Director, Lamiya Morshed, helped launched the very first Social Business Plan Competition at North South University. The event was organized by North South University's Young Entrep...
Yunus Centre is organizing the second Yunus Centre Forum on March 16th, 2010 between 2:00 pm till 6:00 pm. The YCF will include an information session and short discussion on social business, followed by interactive sessions with both the Yunus Centre ...
