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.

This article is a summary of a lecture Dr. Yunus gave to a voluntary organisation at Manhattan in New York.

Here’s the story from the Daily Star about Dr. Yunus’ 90-minute meeting with Hillary Clinton on Thursday, April 16.

A new book, new ideas and a new way of selling it: that’s behind Generation WE:

It has been nominated for the prestigious Montaigne Medal and received the endorsement from many influential people, including Dr.Yunus.

“Unscathed by the credit crisis” and “unflappably optimistic” are just two comments by Dr. Yunus in this article of the Economist entitled Sub-par but not subprime: Lending to the poor has held up well but it is not as safe from the credit crisis as its champions hoped.

Journalists write their opinions down. Not necessarily facts… Nor do they understand the difference between money backed by the real economy and money created out of thin ear, or through ‘quantitative easing‘, at the cost of Nation states…

Open Letter
to the heads of state of the G20-nations

A Global Marshall Plan for Micro-Credits
as part of a Global Pact for Sustainability

Entry into a new quality of a global eco-social market economy

In the present crisis of the global economy the fate of the world community will be decided primarily by the degree, in which we are successful in finally securing a convincing, sustainable development for the benefit of all citizens of this earth. To this aim the consultations on systems for an improved global control of the world financial institutions are a valuable, but still far from a sufficient response.

Especially important at this time are great-hearted measures, which offer the weakest in the global community and therewith those, who are the most strongly affected by the worldwide economic crisis, direct support and perspectives. Therefore we recommend two concrete actions:

I can’t find the video clip on the BBC website, but this blog entry refers to the interview with Dr. Yunus together with Dambisa Moyo, former World Bank economist and author of Dead Aid.

Dr. Yunus says it all the time: development institutions have let us down. Therefore, ’social business’ is the route to self-help