 “In the midst of its environmental devastation, poverty and death rates in Bangladesh were among the highest in the world in the 1980s. Yet......
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, one of Asian University for Women’s earliest supporters, currently serves on AUW’s Bangladesh Board of Advisors. Having grown up in Bangladesh, witnessing poverty and powerlessness firsthand, he acutely understands the importance of AUW...
The Yunus challenge was launched in December 2006 in collaboration with the MIT International Development Initiative. Every year the Yunus Challenge focuses on a different problem faced by some of the poorest communities in the world in an effort to bring these problems...
Now, of course, innovation is only the invention of new technologies. It’s not just that. It is also any breakthrough idea that transforms lives and reshapes our thinking. Like Muhammad Yunus’ belief that poor women armed with credit could become drivers o...
Press ReleaseNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Charities Organization, Prince Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa inaugurated the Family Bank, a microfinance banklicensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain, at a ce...
GULF Daily News
MORE than 4,000 needy families are set to benefit from a micro finance programme within three years, officials have announced.
The Family Bank, which has come into existence after a pioneering initiative of the Social Development Ministry and Banglad...
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Emily Medina isn't running a pyramid scheme, despite what people often think. As the petite 26-year-old works her way through some of New York City's poorer neighborhoods, she approaches women selling food and trinkets on the street and offers to lend them money t...
To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America/Bangladesh/USA (Director: Gayle Ferraro)—Tapping into the success of Muhammad Yunus after winning the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), Grameen America has opened in Queens, NY replicating the banking model program Yunus...
Social Business and the environment : AfforestationSocial Businesses could also be created to fight against climate change. Social business investors, with a strong environmental commitment, could invest in a company which plants trees, increasing the space under forest...
