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This video shows our visit to a village 90 miles outside of Bangalore (India) where a “Microfinance” company is making small business loans (about $200USD) to the women in the village. This scene shows individual women applying for a loan while the other women in the village agree to guarantee the loan. Loans are used to finance income-producing assets such as livestock, rickshaws or raw materials for jewelry & tapestry making. This microfinance company operates in small rural villages throughout India. Proponents of microfinance believe that these loans will enable millions of rural Indians to rise out of poverty over the next decade. Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace prize for pioneering the microfinance business model. www.washingtonpost.com
On May 23, 2010 Dr. Muhammad Yunus, fouder of Grameen Bank spoke at the Town Hall in Seattle. Promoting his new book “Building Social Business”. This is video takes place after Dr. Yunus’ lecture and is of me asking him a question about Healthcare in America and what would things look like if he was able to implement social business-funded healthcare.
Complete Premium video at: fora.tv Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its microcredit program remain robust despite the gloomy state of the global economy. Yunus credits the bank’s one-on-one relationship with the “real economy” for shielding it from the economic turbulence. “We don’t even know there’s a crisis going on,” he says. —– Microcredit pioneer and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus shows how he believes the social business model can harness the entrepreneurial spirit to address poverty, hunger and disease. Yunus shows how social business has gone from being a theory to an inspiring practice, adopted by leading corporations including BASF, Intel, Danone, Veolia and Adidas, as well as entrepreneurs and social activists worldwide. He demonstrates how social business transforms lives; offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own; explains that public and corporate policies must adapt to make room for the social business model; and claims that social business holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise. Social Entrepreneurship in America is a special series featuring leading innovators and pioneers utilizing entrepreneurial passion and rigor to solve societal problems. – Commonwealth Club of California Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, established in Bangladesh in 1983. Dr. Yunus founded the bank with the objective of …
Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, lectures on “Social Enterprise: Doing Well by Doing Good” at Pepperdine University School of Law on October 20, 2007. Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microcredit—using collateral-free loans of small amounts to help millions of families out of poverty. law.pepperdine.edu
Preview of Muhammad Yunus: Building Social Business Ventures – one of 16 DVDs created by Ashoka’s Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Dr. Yunus shares his strategies for building businesses dedicated to the social good. He describes the founding and structure of Grameen Bank, Grameen Phone and other companies he has created to find new solutions for the world’s poor. To purchase the films, visit dvd.ashoka.org.
8th March, 2010 — Muhammad Yunus spoke on Abolishing Poverty The Human Rights Priority. This lecture was a collaboration between the Centre for Social Impact, Business for Millennium Development, World Vision and the Sydney Peace Prize. Professor Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fuelled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so they could help themselves. Grameen Bank has lifted millions out of poverty by disbursing $6.6bn in millions of tiny loans to the poor.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus describes the beginning and progress of Grameen Bank. Here Yunus is interviewed by Stephanie Kinnunen, founder of humanitarian magazine NEED, about how microcredit alleviates poverty. www.needmagazine.com
