Muhammad Yunus [a] (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, politician, and civil society leader, who has been serving as Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. [1]

Nov 21, 2006 · Thirty years ago, Muhammad Yunus made a loan of $27 to some villagers in his native Bangladesh and changed the world. In the three decades since, Yunus issued tiny amounts of credit -...

Only 44 years old, YUNUS, his ex-students from Chittagong University, and their collaborators in the Bangladesh banking fraternity — with a modest investment of less than US$8 million — have launched a major, positive rural change in one of the world’s poorest nations.

Mar 9, 2005 · Last year, a panel of judges from Wharton joined with Nightly Business Report to name the 25 most influential business people of the last 25 years. On that list was Muhammad Yunus, managing director of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and a pioneer in the practice of microcredit lending.

Yunus’s initial experiments were a suc-cess: the impoverished borrowers paid back their loans on time and did not default. From this first group of borrow-ers, Yunus expanded his lending to neigh-boring villages. In 1979, he approached the central bank of Bangladesh and extended the project to other districts. In 1983, Grameen Bank was ...

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty is an autobiography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus. The book describes Yunus' early life, moving into his college years, and into his years as a professor at Chittagong University.

September 21, 2009 – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus is proof that ideas can start small and go on to change the world. Starting with a $27 loan to 42 Bangladeshi villagers in 1976, Yunus founded a bank that now makes more than $1 …

Muhammad Yunus, who earned a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt in 1971, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work combating poverty through a bank that gives small loans to poor people.

Dec 16, 2006 · In 1974, after earning his Ph.D. in the U.S., Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics at Bangladesh’s Chittagong University. When a deadly famine struck the country, Yunus, eager to lend a...

Muhammad Yunus, an economist from one of the world's poorest nations, won the Nobel Peace Prize in October of 2006 along with the institution he founded, Grameen Bank. Yunus established this "Bank of the Villages" in 1983 to provide what are known as microloans to those who otherwise had no access to credit or capital.