This article in the Financial Times reminds people of Prof. Yunus and the Grameen Bank.

Another article from the Daily Star Dhaka that reports about Professor Yunus’ remarkable activities.

The Daily Star in Bangladesh reports:

Yunus to deliver commencement address

Duke University is in Durham, North Carolina and announces the address as The Banker to the Poor here

It is really good to read how Prof. Yunus’ ability to act as role model for students is expressed in giving commencement addresses. Last year at MIT!

“Yunus changed the world”

says Obama as he confers US Presidential Medal of Freedom upon micro-credit guru

Afp, Washington

Here is the full article in The Daily Star

Although listed as last of 16 recipients, Dr. Yunus will be honoured as “Agent of Change” and receive America’s highest civilian honour on August 12.

I find the different kinds of battles that Prof Yunus fights most amazing! As he said at our event in February 2008: the biggest hurdles are people’s minds…

And thus he inaugurated a photography exhibition at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy and Institute of Photography.

Here is the article in The Daily Star.

This is a most moving account of Dr Yunus meeting Nelson Mandela, written by the remarkable Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam.

Dr. Yunus delivered this speech on the 91st anniversary of Nelson Mandela: We can create a world of our choice – YUNUS

The BBC publishes this story about Grameen Glasgow where the question is whether people on benefit are allowed to take out loans…

The Daily Star in Bangladesh reports regularly on the achievements of Dr. Muhammad Yunus and / or Grameen.

This article is a review that took place at the launch of the Bangladesh Microfinance Statistics for 2007.

This blog post demonstrates what Dr. Yunus keeps saying: governments and institutions are notoriously slow and keep letting us down.

The problems are deep and they are institutional above all else. One just has to ‘follow the money’:

– who pays government officials?
– who pays civil servants?
– who pays politicians?
– who pays bankers?
– who pays central bankers?

What is the difference between what we believe happens and what is really happening with money: who prints it and for what purpose? More on Money as Debt also known as Credit.