Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus ( Bengali : মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস Muhammod Iunus ) (born June 28 1940), is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He is the developer and founder of the concept of microcredit . In 2006, Yunus was awarded...
Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস, pronounced Muhammôd Iunus) (born June 28 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics and is famous for his successful application of...
I WAS TEACHING economics at the university in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 1974, and the theories that I was teaching didn't seem to be of much use to the extremely poor. One day, I met a woman who was making a bamboo stool in front...
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank have been awarded the Nobel Prize for peace (equal to more than CAD $1.5 million). Zunus is called the "world's banker to the poor." His Grameen banking system is estimated to have extended credit to more than...