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Yunus to inaugurate Global Social Business Summit 2014 in Mexico
The Global Social Business Summit 2014 will take place from 25-28 November in Mexico City. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will together inaugurate the Summit. The motto of this year's Summit is will be "Shaping Social Business - To Shape the World of 2020", to set an impetus for the social business movement in Mexico, Latin America and the whole world. Mexico City as hosting city will mark the first time that the Global Social Business S...
Yunus as the 5th Global Thought Leader 2014
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, pioneer of Social Business, has been ranked 5th among global influential thinkers in the Global Thought Leader 2014 survey carried out by the Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic and Social Studies (GDI) and MIT Sloan School researcher Peter Gloor.They have done the “Global Thought Leaders” ranking, through a systematic analysis of the English-speaking infosphere...
Statement regarding Gift Tax Issue of Professor Muhammad Yunus
From financial years 2011- 2014, Professor Yunus donated almost his entire earnings i.e. a total of Tk 77.42 crore, after paying all necessary taxes claimed by the Tax Authority.NBR has sent a notice dated 23 March asking Professor Yunus or his nominated representative to meet with Tax Commissioner on 29 March in respect of this gift tax issue which is currently in court. His representative will accordingly meet the Commissioner on that date. ...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at the 17th Micro-credit Summit in Merida, Mexico from September 3-5
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus participated at the 17th Micro-credit Summit in Merida, Mexico from September 3-5, 2014. The program focused on the theme “Generation Next: Innovations in Micro-finance” with the support of the Ministry of Economy (Mexico) and its national micro-enterprise financing program (PRONAFIM) in Merida the capital of Yucatan state, located in the heartland of the Mayan civilization. ...
Yunus urges to tear down wall of poverty at the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Celebrations marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall have concluded with the release of thousands of glowing white balloons into the night sky, fireworks and songs. Some 2 million people gathered in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate for the finale of weekend events marking a quarter of a century since the Fall of the Wall. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was one of the special guests who joined the German President Joachim Gauck, President Mikhail Gorbachev, Berlin Mayor...
Yunus to inaugurate Global Social Business Summit 2014 in Mexico
The Global Social Business Summit 2014 will take place from 25-28 November in Mexico City. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will together inaugurate the Summit. The motto of this year's Summit is will be "Shaping Social Business - To Shape the World of 2020", to set an impetus for the social business movement in Mexico, Latin America and the whole world. Mexico City as hosting city will mark the first time that the Global Social Bus...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS is ready with his third book “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needsâ€
MUHAMMAD YUNUS, author of the New York Times bestsellers “Banker to the Poor” and “Creating a World Without Poverty” is ready with his third book “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs” Professor Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, will be launching his new book “Building Social Business: The New K...
NEW BOOK BY MUHAMMAD YUNUS TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE IN ENGLISH ON MAY 11, 2010
NEW YORK—PublicAffairs Books is pleased to announce that they will release Muhammad Yunus’s latest book, BUILDING SOCIAL BUSINESS: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs, on May 11, 2010, in English worldwide. Book Cover of BUILDING SOCIAL BUSINESS: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs...
YUNUS CENTER PRESS RELEASE: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Atlanta from September 27-29, 2014 to participate in Gala for World Summit of Nobel peace Laureates 2015
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Atlanta; in the U.S. state of Georgia from September 27-29, 2014, to participate in Gala for World Summit of Nobel peace Laureates 2015 and to announce that Atlanta will host the World Summit of Nobel peace Laureates in 2015. Prevalent public figures such as former President Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner, and Ambassador Andrew Young accompanied Professor Muhammad Yunus in the announcement program. President Jimmy Carter and...