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. ...
GuardianA comprehensive global plan is needed to tackle the high cost of food that threatens the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people The global food crisis is a dire reality for millions of the world's poor and a major test for the international comm...
Daily StarGaziul Hasan Khan looks at the options in the Nobel laureate's new bookNobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of collateral free small credit to poor women, is in quest of harnessing free market power to solve the problems of poverty, hunger ...
foreignpolicy.com They are some of the world’s most introspective philosophers and rabble-rousing clerics. A few write searing works of fiction and uncover the mysteries of the human mind. Others are at the forefront of modern finance, politics, and human rights....
Financial TimesNew YorkGrameen, the pioneering microlending institution, has seen a sharp rise in problems for millions of poor borrowers across the developing world in repaying loans as food prices soar, according to Muhammad Yunus, its founder and Nobel Peace Prize wi...
Financial Express MumbayBy RAJIV TIKOWhen the Grameen Bank and French food major Danone set up Grameen-Danone Foods in early 2006 in Bangladesh, it was not a usual joint venture. Though the initial funding of $1.1 million was to be shared equally by Danone and four Gram...
news10nowWith the snip of a ribbon, Dr. Muhammad Yunus officially opened the modest two-room office of Grameen America in Jackson Heights, Queens, bringing his micro-finance model from rural Bangladesh to urban America."You are the banking capital of the world," said Yu...
