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Muhammad Yunus banks on beating enemies of microfinance
The Nobel Peace Prize winner discusses recent attacks on his schemes to relieve poverty, from within Bangladesh and abroad.
Nobel laureate Yunus leaves microfinance bank
Peace Prize recipient leaves pioneering Grameen Bank following legal dispute with Bangladeshi government.
Grameen founder takes aim at conventional banks
Following the global financial crisis, conventional banks have lost a trillion dollars, yet they are still not in favour of lending to the poor.
Mandela’s ‘Elders’ to visit Sudan
A council of peacemaking world leaders and Nobel laureates launched by former South African president Nelson Mandela is taking up Darfur as its first mission, with a trip to…
You can be a banker to the world’s poor
Fuelled by last year’s Nobel Prize for a man nicknamed ”banker to the poor”, microlending to small businesses in the world’s poorest countries is booming as individuals discover…