VOA NewsBillionaire, Nobel Prize Winner Team Up to Help Poor MexicansOne of the world's wealthiest men is teaming up with a Nobel Peace Prize winner to help impoverished people in Mexico.Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim and microfinance expert Muhammad Yunus said Monda...
I interviewed the founder of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus recently and asked him about the current financial crisis gripping the US and the world. He laughed and said that Grameen Bank’s portfolio of micro-loans to poor people in Bangledesh and elsewhere was more ...
Spiegel Online'Capitalism Has Degenerated into a Casino' Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus says that greed has destroyed the world's financial system. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about the profit motive, social consciousness and what should be done to end the ...
Dear Editor,Your report based on the video interview published in Business Week on October 13, 2008 entitled "Muhammad Yunus on the Financial Crisis" misrepresented my views on what I believe is needed to tackle the current global financial crisis.The interview quotes m...
Press ReleaseMarket Watch-Weekend EditionCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov 07, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Paradigm Shift, a Colorado non-profit, is training South African churches to fight poverty in their communities by utilizing the highly successful tool of microfina...
Gabriel MadwayThe global financial crisis can become an opportunity to help the world's worst off, says the Nobel Peace Prize laureate known as the "banker to the poor."World leaders could encourage new types of lending that would let the poor take themselves out of pov...
Nobel winner: 'Social businesses are the future' Muhammad Yunus tells Stanford students to explore the untapped energy and talent of just plain people around the worldNobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus urged Stanford students to use their talents to develop "social...
The Times Winning thousands of dollars could really be the start of something big, especially for an economist, but Muhammad Yunus is not interested in personal fortune. He decided that his share of the $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize that he won in 2006 would be used to...
Grameen Healthcare Trust and GE Healthcare announces partnership to explore social business healthcare delivery models for Bangladesh and other countries of the developing world Grameen Healthcare Trust and GE Healthcare announce...
Michel Euler/Associated PressAt Davos, Bill Clinton greets Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, with Tony Blair, Jet Li and Bill Gates. Michel Euler/Associated PressAt Davos, Bill Clinton greets Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, with Tony Blair,...
