By : Muhammad YunusHave you ever seen a bank with no telephones, no typewriters, no carpets, no loan agreements, and, mostly, run by women? Well, difficult as it is to believe, there is one: The Grameen Bank. Grameen is not noticeably ?bank-like?E But it does lend money...
By : Muhammad YunusGlobalization can help us overcome poverty quickly, if we can prepare our poor to participate in the globalize market. Most important thing is the participation. We must bring IT to the poor, to participate in and take advantage of globalization. If w...
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank Key-note Address Delivered at the Tech-Transfer 2000 -- North America ConferenceHeld in Atlantic City, U.S.A. on April 28-30, 2000 Size of Bangladesh economy is very small. Size of the population of the country is very big. In the past nobo...
Muhammad YunusInternational Seminar on Attacking Poverty with Microcredit, organized by PKSF in Dhaka, BangladeshJanuary 8-9, 2003Source: Grameen InfoMicrocredit Global Picture Microcredit Summit of 1997 set the goal to reach 100 million poorest families with microcredi...
We Can Actually Make It HappenMuhammad YunusDelivered at the Commonwealth Institute, London Courtesy: Grameen InfoI am very honoured to have been invited to give the Commonwealth Lecture 2003. This is a great privilege for me. I would like to take advantage of this occa...
Speech by Muhammad YunusCourtesy: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (NIKKEI)Honorable President, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a great honour for me to receive the Nikkei Asia Prize 2004. When the news of my receiving the prize was communicated to me, it ...
A Key-note Speech by Dr. Muhammad Yunus,Founder and Managing Director, Grameen BankThe World Health Care CongressCourtesy: World Health Care Congress Good evening. I'm very happy to be here, but wondering what I will say because everything I'm supposed to say about the ...
Countdown 2005A speech by Muhammad YunusI was not trained to understand self-help. I was trained, like all students of economics, to believe that all people, as they grow up, should prepare themselves to get jobs at the job market. If you fail to get a job, you register...
Mohammed Yunus Speaks at Fletcher on His Mission to Create a Poverty-free World through Grameen Bank"The only place where poverty should be is in museums", according to Mohammed Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, as he spoke before a packed ASEAN auditorium on March 9 as p...
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.
What if you could harness the power of the free market to ...
