Muhammad Yunus Ashden Awards lecture 2009, intro by Sarah Butler-Sloss

www.ashdenawards.org On 26th February Professor Muhammad Yunus, of the Grameen Bank, gave a lecture for the Ashden Awards at the Royal Geographic Society, talking about microfinance, social business, and the opportunities that are present in the financial crisis. The video starts with an introduction by Sarah Butler-Sloss, Executive Chair of the Ashden Awards, follwed by a short film, and then the lecture by Professor Yunus. Large Blue

To Catch A Dollar film trailer

The documentary film ‘To Catch A Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks On America’ follows the opening of the first American branch of the Grameen Bank, offering collateral-free loans to some of the poorest but most determined women in Queens, New York. The creator of the Grameen Bank, and the concept of microloans, Muhammad Yunus visits the Queens branch in the midst of his whirlwind global travels as he tries to raise awareness and support for micro-finance and social business.

Muhammad Yunus: Microcredit and social business for a poverty-free world

Microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh more than 25 years ago. Since then, millions of rural poor — mostly women — have received small loans for self-employment projects that have helped lift their families out of poverty. The bank’s model has been replicated in more than 100 countries, and microlending has become an important tool in the fight against global poverty. Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has worked with Yunus and the Grameen Bank on a number of initiatives linking the use of information and communication technologies to poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh. Écoutez la conférence en français: www.youtube.com

Nobel laureate axed from job

Nobel Laureate and micro finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus removed from the held of Grameen Bank.

Muhammad Yunus - Breaking the Wall of Poverty @Falling Walls 2009

Yunus founded the Grameen Bank to provide access to capital for the poorest in Bangladesh. The Grameen Bank, as a social business, became a great success and enabled a great number of people to get out of poverty. The microfinance business model soon spread from Bangladesh around the world. for more info visit www.falling-walls.com

Muhammad Yunus Nobel award winner, Grameen Bank is like a real criminal?

The interest in Grameen bank is 30 % or more. www.e24.se

Technology-Enabled Microfinance: Mifos Fuels Growth and Impact at Grameen Koota

This video showcases the growth and impact Grameen Foundation’s Mifos technology platform has had in helping Grameen Koota advance towards its mission of providing financial services to 2 million poor clients throughout the Karnataka region in India. Grameen Koota, through its investment in Mifos has grown to serve more than 400000 clients and generating a $5 million Return on Investment (ROI) that is being used to broaden outreach to the poor by maintaining the lowest interest rates in the region and expanding to the rural outlying areas with the clients in greatest need. Currently only 150 million people living on less than $2/day have access to financial services through microfinance. To reach the remaining 89% in need, the industry must expand its outreach and impact. To date, technology has been a barrier to this growth. Grameen Foundation through its Technology for Microfinance Initiative and its open source Mifos Platform is committed to transforming technology from a barrier into accelerator that scales the growth and impact of microfinance. Grameen Koota is one of the world’s leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) providing financial services to more than 400000 poor clients throughout Bangalore, India. They partnered with Grameen Foundation to invest in the Mifos platform as their complete technology management solution to manage their operations and enable them to fulfill both their business and social goals. Mifos is an open source information management …

IBM Banking Software for Microfinance

www.ibm.com IBM collaborated with Grameen Foundation to develop an open source banking software system designed to help micro finance institutions dramatically improve the timeliness and accuracy of loan information. IBM then worked with the MFI Grameen Koota to implement the system at their 50+ branches across India serving more than 350000 borrowers.

Indian State Seeks Limits on Microfinance After Reports of Abuses

I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Microfinance is a fast-growing part of the financial industry in many developing countries. Micro lenders give small loans to poor people to start or expand businesses. Microcredit offers a chance to improve lives and reduce poverty. But officials in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, are investigating whether debt collections are linked to a series of suicides among borrowers. Reddi Subrahmanyam is a rural development official in that state. He says many of these deaths happened immediately after the recovery agents of the microfinance institutions either visited the house or did something insulting.Reports of corruption and abuses have led to emergency measures in Andhra Pradesh to ban some collection methods. These rules also aim to limit costly fees and high interest rates on loans. The Asian Development Bank says microfinance institutions in the Asia-Pacific area charge interest of thirty to seventy percent a year. Charges can be even higher when other costs are added. But micro lenders also face higher operating costs compared to traditional lenders. Groups like the Asian Development Bank oppose limits on interest rates because of these high business costs.Economist Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand six for his work with microfinance. In the nineteen seventies he started what became the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Grameen says it charges twenty …

Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bagladesh: Phone ladies

In Bangladesh, one of the least developed countries in the world, Microcredit from Grameen Bank has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their communities.

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