A Nobel peace laureate known globally as the “banker to the poor” could be ... charges that he says are politically motivated. Muhammad Yunus, who received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for ...

Muhammad Yunus is often referred to as "the world's banker to the poor" and his revolutionary Grameen (Village) banking system is estimated to have extended credit to more than seven million of ...

The Grameen Bank is a pioneer in microcredit, providing credit to the poor in rural Bangladesh. It has 2.4 million borrowers and 1,175 branches serving more than 60 percent of the villages in ...

But Muhammad Yunus ... merely because they lack Yunus’s exceptional access to large corporations? Furthermore, Yunus’s brand of social business allows profits to be earned, but only if totally owned ...

A book titled "Small Loans, Big Dreams", written by Grameen Foundation founder Alex Counts, highlighting the contributions of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, is now available in the Amar Ekushey Book ...

Microfinance has grown from its origins as a pilot project that sought to demonstrate that the world's poor could benefit from access to ... such visionaries as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad ...

[AFP] Nobel winner Muhammad Yunus said on Tuesday he was ready ... Yunus, known as the "banker to the poorest of the poor", was awarded the Peace Prize in 2006 for his work loaning small cash ...

Muhammad Yunus rose to fame as the pioneer of the microcredit movement. Known as the "banker to the poor", he won the Nobel Prize for helping lift millions out of poverty by making tiny loans to ...