Dr Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. In 1983 he founded Grameen Bank a Microcredit organisation and community bank working towards ending world poverty through increasing access to finance for some of the worlds poorest …
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Professor Muhammad Yunus on Creating a Tiny Factory
Professor Yunus on the birth of Grameen
An Introduction to Grameen Danone Foods
If you only have 4 mins watch this introduction to Grameen: If you have 4 mins more watch this introduction to Grameen Danone: Introducing Social Business on OpenIDEO from IDEO on Vimeo. If you have 10 mins more: Read this introduction to …
The Story – Grameen Danone Foods Ltd
‘I am utterly convinced that our future depends on our ability to explore and invent new businesses and new types of enterprise… [this is] a great opportunity to make progress in that direction and take another huge step towards fulfilling …
Liam Black on the big issues around Grameen & Microfinance
1. Does micro-finance/ micro-credit work? Development experts argue about the efficacy of micro-credit (ie small loans) as a route out of poverty. One indisputable fact is that after 30 years of microfinance – offered by Grameen and other large suppliers …
Grameen Bank
Background and values “ Mission: By providing comprehensive financial services, empowering the poor to realise their potential and break out of the vicious cycle of poverty.” The story of Grameen Bank is the stuff of legend and is closely intertwined …
Yunus and Social Business
Since publication of his book Creating A World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism in 2008, Muhammad Yunus has been travelling the world promoting his concept of social business as the answer to the failings of free …
A few photos from Inside Grameen 2010
Livity’s Sam Conniff’s reflections on Grameen
http://samconniff.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank/