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INTERVIEW : SPIEGEL ONLINE

INTERVIEW WITH NOBEL LAUREATE MUHAMMAD YUNUS

'Capitalism Has Degenerated into a Casino' 10/10/2008

 

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus says that greed has destroyed the world's financial system. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about the profit motive, social consciousness and what should be done to end the financial crisis.

 
US Financial Crisis
Muhammad Yunus Founder of Grameen Bank On The US Financial Crisis.
Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on September 28

I interviewed the founder of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus recently and asked him about the current financial crisis gripping the US and the world. He laughed and said that Grameen Bank’s portfolio of micro-loans to poor people in Bangledesh and elsewhere was more solid than the portfolios of the big American banks full of falling subprime financial products and option ARMs.
 
Team Up to Help Poor Mexicans

Billionaire, Nobel Prize Winner Team Up to Help Poor Mexicans

By VOA News,  30 September 2008
   
One of the world's wealthiest men is teaming up with a Nobel Peace Prize winner to help impoverished people in Mexico.

Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim and microfinance expert Muhammad Yunus said Monday that they will open a bank in Mexico to grant small loans to people who are too poor to qualify for traditional loans.

The funds, known as micro-credit loans, come with low interest rates and are intended to help poor families start income-generating projects.

 
Article by Prof. Yunus
Winter 2008 • Vol. 35, No. 1

How Legal Steps Can Help to Pave the Way to Ending Poverty

by Muhammad Yunus


There is no better time for a serious discussion of how the law and lawyers can enable the poor to help themselves?throughout the world, and especially in the United States .

 
Yunus spells out lessons for bankers
Star Business Desk (The Daily Star)

 Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) speaks as Steve Gunderson (L), president and CEO, Council on Foundations and Rick Warren (R), Pastor, Saddleback Church listen, at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York on Friday. Photo: AFP


 
Microfinance unscathed by financial crisis

AFP :: 2 October 2008

Microfinance unscathed by financial crisis: Yunus

GENEVA (AFP) — The financial crisis has not hit the microfinance system, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said Thursday, as he called for tougher regulations to prevent such shocks in future.

"One good news in the middle of all these bad news: microfinance still works. Not hit by the meltdown process," Yunus said at the sidelines of an International Labour Organisation symposium on microfinance.

 
Micro-lending

Reuters India Thu Oct 2, 2008 8:07pm IST

Micro-lending seen expanding despite credit mess 

GENEVA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The global credit crisis is not making it harder for poor-country entrepreneurs to access the tiny loans they need to start and grow businesses, banking executives said on Thursday.

Microfinance -- which became famous when Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 -- provides small loans to people who lack access to mainstream banking services.

 
Rahul's visit to Grameen projects

 

 

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business24-7
Making the dollar go further, the Yunus way 

Some 30 years ago, economics professor Muhammad Yunus made his first loan of $27 (Dh100) to a group of 42 women so they could expand their bamboo furniture-making business.

After the success of his initial loan, Yunus saw that such a small amount of money could change the lives of the people and thought why not do more? Since then, small collateral-free loans known as microcredit have been provided to 100 million people across all continents.
 
Xiongning's Letter to Dr. Yunus

Miss Xiong Ning, 1978 to Mar 10, 2008, died in a traffic accident on her way to Qinghai to help the poor people there. Below is the translation of a draft letter in Chinese that she wrote to Professor Yunus, which was found among the belongings she left behind.)

Xiongning's Letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Yunus

Dear Professor Muhammad Yunus,

Hello, how are you? First please forgive me if I take the liberty of writing this letter to you. I am a Chinese girl, named Xiongning, 29 years old this year, and born in an ordinary city intellectual family. Since I was young, I have had an ideal that I will set up the same “social conscience-oriented enterprise” as you advocated in Banker to the Poor.


 
Can Yunus create a poverty free world?
Daily Star ::  Can Yunus create a poverty free world?
Gaziul Hasan Khan looks at the options in the Nobel laureate's new book
 
Published On: 2008-05-10

Creating a World Without Poverty
- Muhammad Yunus
Subarna
Nobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of collateral free small credit to poor women, is in quest of harnessing free market power to solve the problems of poverty, hunger and inequality across the world. Grameen Bank, which he founded more than three decades ago to reach collateral free credit to the target group at their doorstep, has been replicated in all the continents to benefit over 100 million families. But he remains far from satisfied as poverty, hunger and inequality continue to trouble the world as well as his native Bangladesh. If the dynamics of capitalism could be applied properly, he believes, poverty, the greatest challenge, facing mankind, could be tackled to a great extent.
 
Guardian :: Solving the food crisis

Guardian Unlimited :: Solving the food crisis

A comprehensive global plan is needed to tackle the high cost of food that threatens the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people

May 16, 2008 6:00 PM

The global food crisis is a dire reality for millions of the world's poor and a major test for the international community. Sustained, generous, wise leadership and broad-based cooperation is required to overcome the crisis and save lives.

Rising food prices have created tremendous pressure in the lives of poor people, for whom basic food can consume as much as two-thirds of their income.

 
Newsweek April 14th 2008

Professor Muhammad Yunus on the cover page of Newsweek as one of the world's Superclass of influential thinkers and personalities of our day.

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Professor Yunus with PM Gordon Brown
Professor Yunus discusses global food prices with PM Gordon Brown
London, April 21, 2008

 
yunus-small.jpg During a meeting at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus  highlighted the extreme difficulties created on the poor by the global rise in prices of  essential food items. Professor Yunus  proposed a global initiative to redress the immediate pressure. Professor Yunus requested PM Gordon Brown to take leadership role  within the European community and the G-8 to initiate concerted efforts to address this issue.  He pointed out that a powerful  breakthrough is needed in  agri-technology to raise the production level in the shortest possible time.

 
Fortune Magazine

The Bangladeshi Nobel laureate wins yet another award - this time for contributions to technology. He talks to Fortune about where tech might take the poor.

By David Kirkpatrick

 

 
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France

president_sarkozy-s.jpg President Nicolas Sarkozy of France received Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus at Elysee Palace in Paris yesterday for a special meeting to discuss microcredit and poverty alleviation strategies for the developing world.

 

 
A New Book by Muhammad Yunus

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people––mainly women––with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty.

Where you can obtain copy of the book



Reviews on Creating a World Without Poverty

 
Honorary Doctor of Law degree

Honorary Doctor of Law degree from University of British Columbia

March 14, 2008

yunus_ubc_s.jpg Professor Muhammad Yunus received an honorary Doctor of Law degree in a ceremony at the University of British Columbia when he came to inaugurate the Michael Smith Nobel Lecture. Over 3000 people attended the numerous events in the day long program. The degree ceremony started with Bangladesh and Canada's national anthems, folk songs and traditional dances. Flags were also hoisted to mark the occasion.

 

 
Turns the tables on the West

Bangladeshi banker to the poor turns the tables on the West 

Vancouver Sun
March 15, 2008   by Don Cayo

turns_on_the_west.jpg It's a shop-worn cliché at best -- the white man trekking off to distant corners of the world to enlighten or enrich. The rich world's better aid and development agencies well know the best help is often to be found far from head office, and the best ideas are apt to come from staff who are plugged into the places and the cultures where they work.

But who better to turn such a dated view completely on its ear than Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel-prize-winning economist. 

 
Small Loans, Significant Impact

Small Loans, Significant Impact

After Success in Poor Nations, Grameen Bank Tries New York

   
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 10, 2008; Page A03

 

NEW YORK -- "Señoras!" calls the banker, summoning her borrowers to attention at their first loan-repayment meeting.

The small-business borrowers -- day-care providers, clothing sellers, jewelry makers -- crowd into the living room where their children are napping, eating cereal and watching TV.

 
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