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Muhammad Yunus: 'Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems'
Source: www.theguardian.comDateof Published: Fri 24 May 2013 07.00 BSTLink: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/may/24/muhammad-yunus-business-solve-problems#:~:text=It%20is%20not%20a%20panacea,having%20to%20use%20loan%20sharks. InterviewMuhammad Yunus: 'Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems'Liz FordGrameen Bank founder is a microfinance pioneer, but are his plans for alleviating poverty a little too good to be true?At first, it is difficult to know what to mak...
'We are having a big party inside a burning house', says Nobel Peace Prize winner
Interview with Professor Muhammad Yunus Source: https://www.estadao.com.br/infograficos/economia,estamos-em-uma-grande-festa-dentro-de-uma-casa-em-chamas-diz-nobel-da-paz,1140941Date of Published: December 18, 2020 'We are having a big party inside a burning house', says Nobel Peace Prize winner 1) You wrote that we were on the brink of the abyss before covid. Why do you think this? How and why did we get at this point?I am trying to point out the situation of the world as it exis...
YOU NEED A RESCUE
Sourse: https://www.zeit.de/The Nobel Prize winner worries about the poor, not only in his homeland of Bangladesh YOU NEED A RESCUE Mr. Yunus, how is your life under the current situation in Bangladesh? My family and I are fine, and we maintain our distance from visitors. It is our responsibility to stay healthy and take care of those who are in need. We must especially stand by the elderly and the poor. Bangladesh is living through the same pain, same insecurity and fear li...
IDR Interviews | Muhammad Yunus
Source: https://idronline.org/idr-interviews-muhammad-yunus/Published Date: August 9, 2018 Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus talks about what it will take to create a just and more equal world, and the power of individuals to bring about this change. by Devanshi Vaid, Smarinita Shetty Banker, economist, and humanitarian, Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, fueled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. Having pioneered the concept of m...
An Interview with the 'Banker to the Poor' Muhammad Yunus
Published on - March 13, 2010This week I interviewed a banker who only lends money to people with no job, no assets, no income and no education – oh, and only women too.I was at a charity do in honour of Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus, otherwise known as the “banker to the poor” (and one of my all-time heroes).It was a long and broad-ranging interview. Here are some of the things he had to say:“Like skeletons – just skin and bones.” Th...
Interview with Muhammad Yunus : His vision of social business
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize (2006), sometimes called the "banker of the poor" and founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, dedicated to microcredit, now chairs the Yunus Centre to raise funds and provide guidance in social business to countries in the North as in the South.Having established structures of social business with many Western companies, Mr Yunus is convinced that his concept based on the principle of "no loss, no dividends" is a new capitalist road, more humane and balanced, a t...
Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World's Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case
Published on - March 09, 2005Last year, a panel of judges from Wharton joined with Nightly Business Report, the most-watched daily business program on U.S. television, to name the 25 most influential business people of the last 25 years. On that list was Muhammad Yunus, managing director of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and a pioneer in the practice of microcredit lending. Grameen Bank received formal recognition as a private independent bank in 1983 and, as of this month, had dispersed close to $5...
'We are all entrepreneurs': Muhammad Yunus on changing the world, one microloan at a time
Published in: www.theguardian.comPublished Date: Wednesday 29 March 2017 03.56 BSTThe Nobel peace prize laureate will be in Australia to discuss why fostering entrepreneurship is even more important in the age of automation Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist, microfinancing pioneer and founder of the grassroots Grameen Bank, has not been resting on his laurels since wining the Nobel peace prize in 2006.For one thing, he has expanded his concept to developed countries via Yunus Social...
Existing banks serve to rich, not to poor people
Published by: The AsiaNPublished Date: 24 November, 2016Prof. Muhammad Yunus is an extraordinary person who created a totally different perspective for social inequality. He is an intellectual, benevolent, banker, social entrepreneur, economist, and civil society leader as well as being an inventor of vital economic terms for poor people. His great initiative, the Grameen Bank helped poor people and gave a chance to them to be investors. In 2006, the bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, were jo...
World's growing inequality is 'ticking time bomb': Nobel laureate Yunus
Published Date: Wed Nov 30, 2016Published By: ReutersSource: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-conference-inequality-idUSKBN13Q2ZJ By Astrid ZweynertNobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus addresses the Hult Prize Award Dinner during the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew KellyLONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The widening gap between rich and poor around the world is a "ticking time bomb" threatening to explode into social ...
I came to believe that credit is a human right
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Muhammad Yunus part of team working to bring down other wallsImage Credit: Gulf News ArchivesDr Younus is among a group of eminent ersonalities in the UN Millennium Development Goals advocacy group.To galvanise support for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon established the advocacy group in June 2010.A group of eminent personalities who have shown outstanding leadership in promoting the implementation of these goals, i...
Bandhan may lose its small loan focus after becoming a bank: Muhammad Yunus' Interview with Live Mint
Muhammad Yunus | Bandhan may lose its small loan focus after becoming a bankThe Nobel laureate and founder of microfinance pioneer Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank says MFIs in India could be greedy and tapping the capital market or raising loans from private equity funds is a bad ideaMumbai: Muhammad Yunus , Nobel laureate and founder of microfinance pioneer Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank, said it is doubtful whether India’s largest microfinance institution (MFI) Bandhan Financial Service...
Prof Yunus calls to redesign economy to redesign world – Exclusive Interview
published on 07/03/2016 KUWAIT: In an exclusive interview with Kuwait Times prior to his arrival in Kuwait, Dr Muhammad Yunus discusses his views on the global economy and the growth of microfinance in the Middle East. Some excerpts:KUWAIT TIMES: You will be speaking at the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce on redesigning economics to redesign the world. What do you mean by this?Professor Yunus: One of the issues I keep raising is that the problems we have created around the world for...
Yunus as nonviolent revolutionary activist
Source: www.pressenza.com, Published Date: 20.03.2016, Author: Leopoldo SalmasoYunus at Abu Dhabi Summit (Image by Leopoldo Salmaso)20.03.2016 - Leopoldo SalmasoWorldwide, Microcredit is associated with the name of charismatic Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace laureate together with Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank: “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below… Lasting peace cannot be achieved if large populations cannot find the way to escape the grip of po...
The man behind a quiet revolution
Published By: www.nationmultimedia.com ThailandSource: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/The-man-behind-a-quiet-revolution-30294361.htmlExclusive InterviewThe Nation September 4, 2016 1:00 amNation Multimedia Group editorial board adviser Suthichai Yoon talks with 2006 Nobel laureate and microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus, the architect of a movement sweeping through Fortune 500 companies, and a ‘Three Zeros’ action plan to preserve the world for future generationsRecognised gl...