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Professor Yunus at Togu Palace of Japan with the Imperial couple |
(From Left to Right) His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Her Imperial Highness Princess Masako of Japan seen together at the Togu Palace on July 20, 2010. The Imperial couple received Professor Yunus at the palace and discussed Professor Yunus's concept of social business and its potential role in solving some of society's most pressing problems. |
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Nobel winning banker to speak on campus of West Georgia |
By Neighbor Staff
Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, will lecture at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, at the University of West Georgia’s Townsend Center for the Performing Arts in Carrollton
The presentation, free and open to the public, will conclude with Yunus signing copies of his book, “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs,” available for $25.
Yunus is known throughout the world as the “father of microcredit” for developing the system that extends small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus discovered that such loans could make significant differences to impoverished people trying to start a business. His first loan was $27 from his own pocket.
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Chinese Minister Discusses Social Business With Professor Yunus |
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(From Left to Right) Madame Wang Ping, Founder and Chairperson of YouChange, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank, H.E. Mr. Fan Xiaojian, Chinese Minister of the State Council Leading Group Office Of Poverty Alleviation and Development and Mr. Wu Zhong, Director General of IPRCC, China seen with the borrowers of Grameen Bank, after a long discussion with them at its Joymontop Singair branch in Kitingchar last Saturday.
Dhaka, 23rd August, 2010:
Mr. Fan Xiaojian, Chinese Minister of the State Council Leading Group Office Of Poverty Alleviation and Development arrived on a week-long visit to Dhaka on August 21, leading a 10 member delegation on behalf of Poverty Reduction Centre in China (IPRCC). Minister Fan is in charge of a US $20 billion budget directed towards poverty alleviation in China. The delegation visited Grameen Bank's Joymondop Singair branch on Sunday, 21st August to learn more on the practical sides and its implementation process. Professor Yunus accompanied the delegation to the field. Later the delegation had a three-hour long discussion with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus in his office in Grameen Bank. During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on poverty reduction and social businesses for development.
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Muhammad Yunus Received The 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award |
SolarWorld AG this year honored Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus by presenting the 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award to him. Professor Yunus received the award in recognition of his contributions to the nonprofit social business company “Grameen Shakti” that Professor Yunus founded in 1996, which since its inception has dedicated itself to providing energy to off-grid rural regions of Bangladesh.
With help from micro-loans, program recipients can obtain small off-grid solar power plants. This clean energy enables regional residents to work after dark, learn more in school and operate electric machines, radios and mobile phones. At the same time, it reduces climate and health hazards emanating from kerosene lamps. Thousands of women were trained in the installation and maintenance of these solar plants, providing them with reliable income. Due to savings on kerosene costs, solar plant owners can pay back the loans within two to three years. GS is pursuing the objective of installing 1 million solar power systems by the year 2015.The micro-loans have, among other things, made possible installations of more than 400,000 small solar power systems, securing energy supplies for people in rural regions of Bangladesh who live far from the national utility grid.
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Grameen Bank Founder to Visit Atlanta |
Phil Bolton, Atlanta
 Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in microfinance, is to be in Georgia this week promoting his most recent book about a “new kind of capitalism.”
Dr. Yunus is to speak at Agnes Scott College’s Presser Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 25, at 8:15 p.m. as part of the AJC Decatur Book Festival.
On Thursday, he is to speak at 5 p.m. in LeCraw Auditorium at the Georgia Tech College of Management, Technology Square.
On Friday, he will be speaking at the Atlanta University Center at 11:30 a.m. and at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton at 3 p.m.
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