DawnWorld food prices have been rising for long. They had more than doubled within the last two years and within a year the price index of the Economist of London has registered a rise of 54.1 per cent. The process continues to the glee of those who are growing......
Grameen Bank and Veolia Water agreed recently to set up a new company called Grameen-Veolia Water Ltd. to supply drinking water to the poorest people of Bangladesh. The company will be 50% owned by Veolia Water AMI (Africa, Middle East, India) and 50% by Grameen Health...
NTS OnlineBy : Koh Lay ChinSO it's election time. To think about it, options are generally limited, are they not? Choose the incumbent, challenger, or if you dislike them, some spunky independents.You might not have the luxury of voting for any particular politician or ...
The Bangladeshi Nobel laureate wins yet another award - this time for contributions to technology.He talks to Fortune about where tech might take the poor. NEW YORK (Fortune) -- "Technology is making more changes in our way of life than ever in human history," says Muha...
Daily StarNobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, now on a visit to Saudi Arabia, has brushed aside allegations in Saudi media that a large number of Bangladeshis are breaking the law in the kingdom.Any people can turn to crimes anywhere and so it is not fair to single out ...
New York TimesMexicoCarlos Danel and Carlos Labarthe turned a nonprofit that lent money to Mexico's poor into one of the country's most profitable banks. But not all of their colleagues in the world of microlending — so named for the tiny loans it grants —...
LondonDuring a meeting at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus highlighted the extreme difficulties created on the poor by the global rise in prices of essential food items.LondonDuring a meeting at 10 Downi...
BusinessWeekWhen the Bottom Line Is Ending Poverty -Creating a World Without Poverty:Social Business and the Future of Capitalism By Muhammad YunusMuhammad Yunus is a humble man who would resist being compared to Mahatma Gandhi. But the two have much in common as campai...
United Arab EmiratesMuhammad Yunus, founder and MD of micro-credit bank Grameen has called for more emphasis on social businesses that help the poor. 'Take off your profit maximising glasses and put on your social business glasses and the world will look so different,' ...
Professor Muhammad Yunus on the cover page of Newsweek as one of the world's Superclass of influential thinkers and personalities of our day. ...
