Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has been officially ... The 84-year-old, known as the "banker to the poorest of the poor", was awarded the Peace Prize in 2006 for his work ...

Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong ... Yunus is the author of a memoir, *Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty*. Yunus is the founder and managing director ...

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 ...

Much of the Western world lauds Prof Muhammad Yunus for his ... Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Prof Yunus - known internationally as the "banker to the poor" - has been slapped with swathes ...

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to ... The 83-year-old Yunus, known internationally as the "banker to the poor", is credited with establishing a pioneering ...

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 ...

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been sworn in as the interim government ... There is a widespread hope that Prof. Yunus, the so-called banker for the poor, will bring democracy back to Bangladesh ...

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus said Wednesday that world ... killed nearly 300 people. Known as the “banker to the poorest of the poor,” Yunus was a longtime critic of Hasina.

It’s not language that sits easily with 84-year-old Muhammad Yunus, though the Nobel laureate ... It’s a life’s work that won Yunus the sobriquet “banker to the poor” as well as the 2006 Nobel Peace ...

Nobel Laureate and Chief Adviser of interim government Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus has been named among ... small loans have faced criticism for exploiting the poor with exorbitant interest rates, Dr Yunus ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh —Jailed Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is celebrated ... The 83-year-old, known as the “banker to the poorest of the poor”, was awarded the Peace Prize ...

Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the use of microcredit to help the poor, is being tried on charges of corruption and violating labor laws.