The bank is the brainchild of Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist who received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. When he returned to Bangladesh after it became independent of ...

Claiming that social business can bring millions of people out of poverty, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said ...

After a student-led uprising toppled Bangladesh’s authoritarian Prime Minister last year, a known leader stepped up to guide ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said that people do not remain poor due to a lack of skills or ambition ... "This recognition from Peking University reminds me of my promise to help realize ...

Foreign journalists have lauded Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus for his leadership as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government, praising his steady guidance during a critical period for the ...

Claiming that social business can bring millions of people out of poverty, Chief Adviser of the interim government Professor ...

Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has emphasised that the world was transforming faster than previously imagined, driven by a ...

The name of Muhammad Yunus ... “Decades earlier, Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh to empower the most marginalised communities through small loans, helping millions—97 percent ...

It’s not language that sits easily with 84-year-old Muhammad ... earnings to help their families than men. It’s a life’s work that won Yunus the sobriquet “banker to the poor” as well ...

Muhammad Yunus on the Future ... In 2006, the "banker to the poor" received the Nobel Peace Prize. Bangladesh's prime minister saw Yunus as her archenemy and began refusing to even say his name ...

India has strongly rejected Bangladesh’s statement on the Waqf-related violence in West Bengal, calling it “disingenuous” and ...

Through Grameen Bank, an institution he founded in 1983 in Bangladesh to provide microlending services to the poor, Prof Yunus' work has always been about changing the system.