On Dr. Muhammad Yunus Being Awarded the Nobel Peace PrizeStatement From The Office of President Bill Clintonfrom www.clintonfoundation.org “Hillary and I first met Muhammad Yunus when I was Governor, and he inspired us to create a micro-finance program in Arkansas...
It was around 2:50pm, when someone from the Norwegian television channel called me. He told me that the peace prize will be announced within 10 minutes and requested me to hold the line because whispering went on outside the room that I was going to win the Nobel Peace....
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. Lasting peace c...
As a courtesy of AshokaAshoka Films on Muhammad Yunus to be Translated in Honor of Muhammad Yunus' Nobel Peace Prize. Please help Ashoka honor Dr. Yunus and his extraordinary contributions and celebrate Ashoka's 25th anniversary by aiding in volunteer effort to translat...
Interview with World Forum ChannelInterviewed by :Stephen Covey, author of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"September 2000.Please click here to watch the video from simulconference.com...
By : Muhammad YunusJuly, 2005 Grameen Bank was started in 1976 by Muhammad Yunus as an experimental project to combat rural poverty by providing credit to the very poor in 1983 Grameen Bank became established as a formal bank which provides small, collateral-free credit...
By : Muhammad YunusMicrocredit Summit of 1997 set the goal to reach 100 million poorest families with Microcredit, along with other financial services, preferably through the women in those families by 2005. In the recently held Microcredit Summit +5 in NY, we have just...
By : Muhammad YunusEvery year Grameen Bank (GB) staff evaluate their work and check whether the socio-economic situation of GB members is improving. GB evaluates poverty level of the borrowers using ten indicators. A member is considered to have moved out of poverty if ...
By : Muhammad YunusApril, 2009 Grameen Bank methodology is almost the reverse of the conventional banking methodology. Conventional banking is based on the principle that the more you have, the more you can get. In other words, if you have little or nothing, you get not...
By : Muhammad YunusMany of the problems in the world remain unresolved because we continue to interpret capitalism too narrowly. In this narrow interpretation we create a one-dimensional human being to play the role of entrepreneur. We insulate him from other dimensions...
