Interview
The next steps for microcredit Interview with Muhammad Yunus
By - Monte Leach Date- From the January/February 1998 issue of Share International. An interview with Grameen Bank founder and microcredit pioneer, Muhammad Yunus, discussing microcredit's challenges and successes in extending credit to the world's poor. Cites two lessons learned: that the poor are credit-worthy; that given credit facilities, the poor can move out of poverty by themselves. Last February, Muhammad Yunus and others organized a Microcredit Summit in Washington DC, which was...
Interview with Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank
By- Editorial Board Editor Dr Toh Han Chong Deputy Editor Dr Tan Yia Swam Members Prof Chee Yam Cheng Dr Martin Chio A/Prof Daniel Fung Dr Hsu Liyang Dr Lim Boon Leng Dr Jeremy Lim Dr Tan Poh Kiang Dr Tan Wu Meng Dr Teo Eng Swee Cuthbert Ex-officio Dr Wong Chiang Yin Dr Abdul Razakjr Omar Editorial Manager Ms Krysania Tan Editorial Executive Ms Gracia On Date – 12th DECEMBER 2008 Dr Toh Han Chong: Microfinancing has been a socio-economic revolution in bringing the...
Muhammad Yunus on How to Change the World: Do the Reverse
By Ashoka Date - 01/23/2016 Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank, the pioneering Dhaka-based organization that spread microcredit and microfinance globally. Professor Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his transformative impact. Ashoka had a chance to catch up with him just before the 2016 World Economic Forum. Ashoka: You’ve been a global defining force in several spheres, including microcredit and more recently, social business. What’s got your attention r...
An Interview With Professor Muhammad Yunus, Chairman, Grameen Shakti
Date- 4 June, 2010By - Grameen Shakti 1. Why Grameen Shakti? Global warming is an on-going over-riding issue in Bangladesh. So is the shortage of power. There is hardly any electricity in the rural areas. Eighty per cent of people of Bangladesh live in the rural areas. Seventy percent of the population of Bangladesh has no access to electricity. I thought it gives us an opportunity to bring renewable energy to Bangladesh. But it was not easy, b...
Woman Are Better with Money
SPIEGEL Interview with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus Published on: December 07, 2006 Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 66, discusses the failure of traditional development aid his successful use of microcredits in the battle against poverty. SPIEGEL: Professor Yunus, the United Nations' goal to cut global poverty by half by the year 2015 remains as distant as ever. Meanwhile, the number of starving people rose this year from 840 to 854 Million. What is going wrong with developme...
Interviews with Badrul Khan
Interview with Nobel Laureate, Prof. Muhammad Yunus I was fortunate to be invited as an e-learning keynote speaker at the Digital World 2012 International Conference (http://www.digitalworld.org.bd/speakers/) held at Dhaka, Bangladesh in December, 2012. During my visit there, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Laureate, at the Yunus Centre. My meeting with him was a most insightful experience. We discussed education in the digital world, and I was impresse...
Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus
Stephen Covey: Welcome to Masters of Leadership. I'm Steven Covey. Join me as we talk with world leaders and others who lead the world in their pursuit of excellence in politics, the arts, science and business. Remember, leadership is the enabling art in every field of human endeavors. Masters of Leadership is a new series that presents a unique perspective on the world and its leaders. Will everyone give genuine welcome to Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh who runs the Grameen Bank. His life, his...
Muhammad Yunus: Break slavery’s legacy. Don’t ask for a job. Make your own.
Published on - January 24, 2016 My 13 visits to Davos have produced many interviews with some of the world’s rich, powerful and famous. But none was quite like last night’s discussion with the father of social entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. Feisty and forthright, Bangladesh’s most famous citizen is small in stature but with a gigantic presence. And he makes so much sense. For instance, why does so much of humanity believe th...
Profiles in Peace: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus
Published on - March 3, 2016 Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank, a microcredit system that provides banking services targeted at the rural poor. In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been a constant advocate for the rights of rural women, and has worked tirelessly to advance women’s economic empowerment globally. Mayesha Alam sat down with him in 2013 to talk about women’s economic participation and access ...
Interview with Muhammad Yunus
Caroline Hartnell Published on - 15 September 2015 Pioneering anti-poverty practitioner and Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus spells out his vision for eradicating poverty. His message comes as world governments, donors and NGOs meet this month to finalise an agreement on global Sustainable Development Goals. Microfinance, which you are credited with inventing, is an important movement in the history of poverty work. What are the overall achievements so far, and what do yo...
Professor Muhammad Yunus on the Power of Social Business
Published on - November 06, 2013 What, in your words, is a social business? The quickest way that I can describe it is a nondividend company that solves human problems. The investor can take back the investment money out of the business over time, but he or she is not interested in making any additional money or dividend out of it for himself or herself. So that becomes a social business. It is focused on solving a human problem, unlike conventional businesses, which want to make m...
Micro-Credit and Alleviating Poverty in Bangladesh
Professor Muhammad Yunus is the managing director and founder of Grameen Bank, which currently operates 1,148 branches providing credit to over 2.4 million poor people residing in 39,857 villages in Bangladesh. Grameen Bank was his creation and he continues to be a strong advocate of micro-credit, arguing that it is only through collateral-free credit, made available in particular to poor women, that poverty can be alleviated. He started the Grameen Bank Project in 1976 and saw it to its comp...
Catching Up with Professor Muhammad Yunus
Published on - March 11, 2015 At the 17th Microcredit Summit in Merida, Mexico, Grameen Foundation President Alex Counts and Senior Program Specialist Frank Ballard interviewed Professor Muhammad Yunus, a founding member of Grameen Foundation's board of directors. He spoke extensively about the growing impact of social businesses globally and offered important words of advice to young people. Excerpts appear below. Grameen Foundation: Professor Yunus, tell us about your re...