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In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank were granted a joint Nobel Peace Prize for their for-profit work in helping to eradicate poverty through Micro Credit. The concept of micro credit is pretty amazing. That is, instead of giving poor people money in the form of donations and handouts, give them business loans so that they can create their own economic prosperity.
Most banks would not waste their time with super small loans to very poor people, but Yunus figured that $27 dollars...
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U.S. banks have been quietly considering getting into the microcredit market in the effort to be more visionary in their growth. Over the long haul, bankers see the growing microcredit market as a possible threat to their supremacy in the financial sector.
Banks in France and Bangladesh, notably banks that began as village banks are deeply linked to the well-being of their community. For U.S. banks, that mindset is a considerable change in concept. The concept started small. Small amounts of...
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Thanks to Brother Shafi Chowdhury from The Daily Star, April 7, in The Bangladesh Newspapers:
Moscow Mayor Meets Prof Yunus
Help to introduce micro-credit sought
Unb, Dhaka
Mayor of Moscow YM Luzhkov has sought advice and assistance of Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus to introduce micro-credit and social business for the low-income people.
Luzhkov called on Progf Yunus in Moscow on April 4.
Luzhkov, a powerful leader of the ruling party who has been serving as Moscow’s mayor for 16...
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Microcredit, created by the economist Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh in 1976, is an approach to combating poverty by lending small amounts of money, ...
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Bangalore, August 20 (ANI/Business Wire India): Manipal Cure and Care (MCC) was graced by the presence of Muhammad Yunus, the Noble Peace Prize awardee of 2006 accompanied by Vidar Jorgensen - President Grameen America.
Dr. Satish Amarnath- Medical director MCC welcomed them.
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Manipal Cure and Care( MCC) was graced by the presence of Mr. Muhammad Yunus, The Noble Peace Prize awardee of 2006 accompanied by Mr. Vidar Jorgensen ...
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... as well as Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus. The founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh was recognised as a pioneer in microcredit and ...
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MicroCredit-NH, a program of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, is pleased to announce its hiring of David Hamel of Merrimack as MicroCredit-NH Director.
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"Introducing Muhammad Yunus is like lighting a candle to see the Sun. We need to revolve around him - to know him, to study him and learn from him," said HS ...
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Bangalore, Aug 20 (ANI): Nobel Laureate and founder of Grameen Bank of Bangladesh Mohammad Yunus has said that India needs legislative and regulatory back to provide micro credit service to the poor. Speaking to media here last evening, the Nobel ...
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Inspired by the work of Nobel Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Grameen Foundation supports microcredit organizations around ...
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Nobel Laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus, will deliver a lecture on Saturday, August 23, at a microfinance roundtable conference in Lagos.
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The proposal is backed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who set up Bangladesh's Grameen Bank and is regarded as the founder of the microcredit ...
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