Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Banglad...
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcr...
Dr. Muhammad Yunus in Bangladeshi Media Yunus makes nation proudShares Nobel Peace Prize with his Grameen BankThe Daily StarSat October 14, 2006Nobel Prize was long overdue for YunusEconomists, business leaders sayThe Daily StarSat October 14, 2006Prof. Muhammad Yunus W...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
