"I want to congratulate Dr. Muhammad Yunus on winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
About twenty years ago, Dr. Yunus traveled to Arkansas to help Bill and me set up microcredit programs in the United States. Since that time, in my travels in Bangladesh and around the...
The Secretary-General is delighted that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 has been awarded to Professor Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, pioneers of the microfinance movement and long-standing allies of the United Nations in the cause of development and t...
From New Nation Online EditionWorld NewsManmohan, Sonia greet Nobel laureate YunusBy UNB, New DelhiSat, 14 Oct 2006, 10:35:00Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and leading newspapers eulogized Bangladesh's Mohammed Yunus, who won Nob...
BBCBangladesh is the most crowded place on Earth and will become even more impossibly packed in the next 30 years.Approximately 20% of its land, it is feared, will be lost to the rising waters brought about by climate change.Today's 150 million Bangladeshis also have to...
Source:XinhuaFormer U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivers a keynote speech in Beijing, capital of China, July 2, 2009. The global think-tank summit opened here Thursday.More than 900 scholars, experts and representatives from business circle from around the w...
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Established by the Eisenhower Fellowships’ board of trustees in 1988, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service is awarded annually to a business leader, statesmen, or other public figure who has achieved, through direct personal contacts across b...
Welcome
Lord Kinnock
I. Opening Remarks
It is a very great pleasure for me, as Chair of the British Council, together with our Chief Executive, Martin Davidson, to welcome you here and also to thank the University of Reading for their kindness in sponsoring the lec...
Remarks of Dr. Yunus at Vanderbilt ,January 2005Dr. Yunus is Vanderbilt alumnusListen to his remarks...
by Alison BenjaminThe GuardianAs a bank created for poor women in Bangladesh prepares to open its doors in Britain, Alison Benjamin hears from its Nobel peace prize-winning founder Muhammad Yunus about how the recession can help people out of poverty
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