The GuardianAs a French multinational and Bangladeshi villagers join forces to help people work their way out of poverty,Liam Black finds a lesson for British business - and banks Liam Black. The GuardianAs a French multinational and Bangladeshi villagers join forces to...
Hambrecht, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, and Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen Bank, signed an agreement in Ludwigshafen to establish a joint venture SOCIAL BUSINESS COMPANY called BASF Grameen Ltd...
By Chana R. SchoenbergerMarket ScanNobel winner Muhammad Yunus says microfinance lending to the poor can return the economy to health.Forget multibillion-dollar bailouts. Muhammad Yunus thinks the solution to the global financial crisis can be found in loans of much sma...
AFP – Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank microcredit program and Nobel Peace Prize laureate …AFP – Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank microcredit program and Nobel Peace Prize laureate …TOKYO (AFP) – B...
"The Girl Effect on Development" ranked fourth in session sign-ups among all panels at this year's World Economic Forum. In a meeting where people were tripping over each other to hear ideas about how to move beyond this economic crisis, CEOs and heads of state wanted t...
January 2009 Leadership CNBC Europe BusinessProfessor Muhammad Yunus, the CEO of Grameen Bank, is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the acknowledged father of micro-credit. In his native Bangladesh 30 years ago he pioneered giving small loans to very poor people who could...
Inter Press ServiceIssue Relevant Muhammad Yunus, who claimed the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize founding Grameen Bank, which has lent out more than six billion dollars to mostly poor women, says the global recession presents a historical opportunity for change. IPS Corresponde...
The EconomistIssue RelevantLending to the poor has held up well but it is not as safe from the credit crisis as its champions hoped. A global credit crisis caused by subprime mortgages is hardly the ideal backdrop for a business making unsecured loans to poor people wit...
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has called for a shakeup in the existing financial system and replacing it with a new inclusive one integrating microcredit for the poor, as the global economic turmoil is expected to intensify.The Daily StarNobel laureate Muhammad Yunus ha...
The HinduNEW DELHI: Stating that the current global financial crisis will intensify further, noted economist and Nobel laureate from Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus said on Monday that financial institutions of the world need to be “inclusive.â€The HinduNEW DELHI: ...
