Interview
An interview with Muhammad Yunus: The godfather of microcredit shares his views – and concerns – about the sector
Muhammad YunusFew individuals cast a longer shadow in the world of social enterprise than Nobel Laureate and Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus. We were grateful for the opportunity to interview him at the 17th Microcredit Summit earlier this month.In the course of our brief conversation, Yunus wasn't shy about disagreeing with some of the approaches being discussed and promoted at the summit. For instance, the conference dedicatedquite a bit of favorable coverage to the sector’s efforts ...
Muhammad Yunus: 'Put poverty in the museum'
In interview with DW, former Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus says that social business organizations need to take on a more important role in international development aid work. Prof. Yunus, in a letter to the members of the Grameen Bank on your departure from the bank in 2011 you wrote "I thought that if I were to lend money to the poor, than the villagers could be free from the grasp of the loan sharks. This is what I did. I never imagined that it would become ...
Money well lent
As a bank created for poor women in Bangladesh prepares to open its doors in Britain, Alison Benjamin hears from its Nobel peace prize-winning founder Muhammad Yunus about how the recession can help people out of povertyThere is a banker who is still feted across the world, collecting accolades and honours wherever he goes. The institution he founded more than 20 years ago is unscathed by the current financial crisis, and his opinion is more sought after than ever before as politicians and econo...
Social Business
Jake Whitney interviews Muhammad YunusWas Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus’s sacking from the microlending bank he created part of a conspiracy to discredit and force him out?Was it a conspiracy? Last November, a documentary aired on Norwegian television accusing Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, of a slew of unethical and illegal practices. The most serious was the illegal transfer of $100 million from Grameen Bank, the financial institution he established to help his ...
Muhammad Yunus sees 'lots of possibilities' in Uniqlo venture
Interviewed by : Nikkei staff writer Hisashi IwatoPublished On: http://asia.nikkei.comPublished date: June 10, 2016 12:30 am JST. --------------------------------------------------------------June 10, 2016Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, spoke with The Nikkei about his experience with Uniqlo and his views on social business. Q: Why did you decide to work with Uniqlo?A: We did not particularly choose Uniqlo. It was a chance meeting with Tadashi Yanai...
Interview with Professor Muhammad Yunus: "Human Being Is Much Bigger Than Just Making Money"
Transcript from an interview with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on 12 December 2006. Interviewer: Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist. First of all, welcome to this interview. Muhammed Yunus: Thank you. I'm very honoured to meet you. What did you think when the phone call came? Muhammed Yunus: Oh, it was… well, mind boggling. You don't imagine it will happen. Although there are a lot of talks every year that I may be getting the Nobel Prize, but tal...
Nobel Prize Winner Thinks No One Should Ever Retire
Muhammad Yunus just had a milestone birthday. On June 28, he turned 75. It's a big moment for a man who's had many big moments in his life — most notably the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding Grameen Bank, which loans small sums, aka "microcredit," to the poor, mainly women, so they can start their own businesses. Yunus stopped by NPR last week — he was in Washington, D.C., for a conference — wearing the long, open-necked "kurta" shirt of his native Bangladesh. "[A tie] ...
Be A Go-Getter, Not A Job Getter
Muhammad Yunus, the founding father of "microcredit" and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, is in New York City this week to take part in the annual Clinton Global Initiative meetings. Yunus, a Bangladeshi and founder of the Grameen Bank, which makes loans to people too poor to offer collateral in return, is serving as one the judges for the Hult Prize, in which six teams of college and university students — the survivors of a rigorous worldwide winnowing — will present their ideas ...
You Need A Banking Law to Create A Bank For The Poor
Interviewed by: Shamni PandePublished On: business today in Published date: April 12, 2015 Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and a proponent of 'social business', a not-for-profit business model to combat unemployment and other social evils, does not mince his words when it comes to micro-credit for the poor. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is dismissive about some recent innovations in the microfinance sector and warns about the direction they are taking. He also believes...
Interview at National Microfinance Conference 2009 in New Delhi
Interview taken at: Sa-Dhan's National Microfinance Conference 2009 on March 30 Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, has been a great inspiration to the entire microfinance community. Microfinance Focus congratulates Dr Yunus and takes the opportunity to republish an exclusive interview that Dr. Yunus had given to it on March 30 on the sidelines of the Sa-Dhan's National Microfinance Conference 2009 in New Delhi. It is a show piece of Dr yunus's vie...
In Business for All
Interviewed by: Art DalglishPublished on: AARP BulletinDate: July 29, 2010 In Business for All Interview with Muhammad Yunus, author of Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs It all started with a gift of $27. In 1974, Muhammad Yunus was an economics professor at Chittagong University in Bangladesh when a combination of war, natural disasters and an international oil crisis toppled his country into a devastating famine. H...
"We need to create a bank for the poor' suggests Nobel Peace Prize winning microfinance pioneer"
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 09/10/2014 Reporter: Leigh Sales Banks need to change, with the banking system geared to the rich, so microfinancing attempts to create a bank for the poor according to Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-poverty campaigner Muhammad Yunus. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: One of the world's most accomplished anti-poverty campaigners, Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus, is currently in Australia. The professor is spreading...
Q&A with Muhammad Yunus
Background: Dr. Muhammad Yunus is known throughout the world as a pioneer of the microcredit concept that uses small loans made at affordable interest rates to transform the lives of impoverished people, mostly women. The founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Yunus and Grameen were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. This is a longer, edited transcript of the broadcast interview. Real Interview: NOW: You said that credit is a human right. Others say it's a responsibility and ...
Interview with Muhammad Yunus
By- CNN Date - November 20, 2007 Background Info – Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work in microcredit, which has helped millions of people out of the poverty cycle. The first businessman ever to receive such a high honor, Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded revolutionized conventional ways of banking, creating a system of lending money to the poor, mostly women. BLOCK A AR: Professor Yunus, welcome to Talk Asia. Now, it's been nearly a year s...
An Interview with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and H.I. Latifee
Reporter- Sean Murphy Date- March 15, 2012 On March 2, 2011, the Bangladeshi finance regulator, Bangladesh Bank, ordered Muhammad Yunus’s removal as the director of Grameen Bank, an institution he founded in 1983. Grameen appealed the action, but lost as the Supreme Court upheld the decision. On May 12, Yunus resigned as director. While the action was embroiled in political maneuvering, there were also questions about the legitimacy of Grameen’s practices raised. I wo...