Business WireHow Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90306) has announced the addition of "Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize W...
NEW YORK, NY April 26, 2008 —With a jumbo pair of scissors and a big round of applause, Dr. Muhammad Yunus officially opened Grameen America in Jackson Heights Friday. It's the first American branch of Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. REPORTER: More than three decade...
by Talal Malik ArabianBusiness.ComNobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is to headline the International Islamic Finance Forum (IIFF) with a full-day session on Sunday 13 April explaining his success in alleviating poverty through microfinance. Yunus will be holding a '...
Miss Xiong Ning, 1978 to Mar 10, 2008, died in a traffic accident on her way to Qinghai to help the poor people there. Below is the translation of a draft letter in Chinese that she wrote to Professor Yunus, which was found among the belongings she left behind.Dear......
Global povertyWe started the Millennium with the war on terror, and all our resources are concentrating on terrorism. AMY GOODMAN: “Banker to the poor,†Muhammad Yunus is the Bangladeshi economist who was awarded......
The Star.com Need can happen here, Nobel Prize-winning microcredit messiah tells business peopleMuhammad Yunus doesn't talk like a typical banker. He believes that access to credit is a fundamental human right.Nicknamed Bangladesh's "banker to the poor" for motivating a...
Yunus sees big answers in microcreditMuhammad Yunus, banker to the poor and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, believes the best way to bring microfinance to the developed world lies in the heart of the banking world - New York City.Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank open...
Anne Perkins offers a historical look at microfinance, placing the work Barclays will do in Katine in context guardian.co.uk Article historyKatine microfinance history  Customers in Bangladesh repaying microloans. Photograph: Karen KasmauskiIn 1974, an economics lect...
business24-7Some 30 years ago, economics professor Muhammad Yunus made his first loan of $27 (Dh100) to a group of 42 women so they could expand their bamboo furniture-making business.After the success of his initial loan, Yunus saw that such a small amount of money cou...
Earth & SkyScience radio heard 10 million times daily. Web community where your voice matters.Microcredit catching on, says ‘banker to poor’Program #5479 of the Earth & Sky Radio Series with hosts Deborah Byrd, Joel Block,# Lindsay Patterson and Jorge Salaz...
