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It is Time to Redesign Economics
It is Time to Redesign EconomicsMuhammad Yunus The world is facing an unprecedented crisis with the Corona-virus pandemic. Day after day all the failures in our economic and social system, and in our thinking process are being revealed. We were aware of these failures all along, but we ignored them, and we let them grow worse each day. We knew about global warming, and that it is worsening as well as about wealth concentration, and that it is getting worse. We knew about the problems of pov...
Future of Mobility
Muhammad YunusI vividly remember one of my most memorable trips I ever made. In the year 1955, I was part of the boy scout group who got the chance to travel to Europe and North America to the 10th World Jamboree of Boy Scouts held in Canada. I was fifteen years old. It was an unforgettable journey full of inspiration that left a lasting imprint on my mind. For instance, it was quite an experience crossing the Atlantic both ways in luxury liner ships, watching the emergence of countries in Europ...
Concept Note on NOBIN EQUITY PROGRAMME (NEP) OF THE SOCIAL BUSINESS VENTURE CAPITAL FUND
Concept Note onNOBIN EQUITY PROGRAMME (NEP)OF THE SOCIAL BUSINESS VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDMuhammad Yunus January, 2021Three Social Business Venture Capital Funds have been created by three organizations: Grameen Telecom Trust, Grameen Trust, and Grameen Shakti Samajik Bybosha. These three organizations independently started operating a programme named Nobin Equity Programme (NEP), through these Funds. They follow common operational procedures.These Venture Capital Funds are de...
YSBC Web Lecture Series - Lecture#13: Role of Grameen Communications in providing technology support to leading microcredit institutions in Bangladesh.
Join us for the 13th session of our YSBC Web Lecture Series on “Role of Grameen Communications in providing technology support to leading microcredit institutions in Bangladesh.” with Speaker, Nazneen Sultana, Managing Director, Grameen Communications and Moderator, Prometheus Siddiqui, Board Member, Grameen Australia; Dana Asia (Singapore). This engaging session will take place on 10th February 2021 at 4.00 pm Dhaka (GMT +6) and feature Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.To joi...
Pandemic has given us an opportunity to protect the world from its suicidal path – Muhammad Yunus
English translation of an interview originally published in Brazilian newspaper, 'Estado de Sao Paulo' on 18 December 2020.Q. You wrote that we were on the brink of the abyss before Covid 19. Why do you think this? How and why did we get to this point?A: I am trying to point out the situation of the world as it existed in the pre-pandemic time. The pandemic has stopped the economic machine. So, the world has slid behind economically since pre-pandemic time. Now a strong effort is being made by a...
Academia Report on Social Business 2020 - No Going Back
We are happy to announce the publication of the “Academia Report on Social Business 2020 - No Going Back”. This year’s starring contributors include Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Jeffrey Sachs (world-renowned economist and Professor at Columbia University), Andrea Jung (CEO of Grameen America and Board Member of Apple), Ron Garan (decorated NASA astronaut) and Michael Møller (former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations) amongst others. We spea...
People's Lives Must Matter More Than Pharma Companies' Profit - An Op-Ed by Professor Muhammad Yunus
People's Lives Must Matter More Than Pharma Companies' ProfitProfessor Muhammad Yunus Nobel Laureate for Peace, 2006History of human beings is a history of being driven basically by collective interest, not by personal interest. Economists made us believe that we are driven only by personal interest, and act accordingly through profit maximization. It is time to restore our core identity by making businesses to serve society’s needs first and foremost; profit cannot come at the expense of ...
Nearly One Million Reached : Yunus' petition reaches close to one million signatures, urging global leaders to put people ahead pharma patents
Yunus Centre Press Release (11 December 2020) Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus launched a call for Covid-19 vaccines to be declared a Common Good in June 2020, which has been joined by 24 other Nobel Laureates and 125 former Presidents, Prime Ministers, and eminent global figures. With the upcoming EU Council Meeting of the European Heads of State, The TRIPS Council, WTO General Council and the African Union meetings, nearly one million, that is 913,453 people as of December 11, 2020...
Your Support for the Campaign to Make COVID-19 Vaccines a Global Common Good
Greetings from Yunus Centre! You should be pleased to know that we are working tirelessly on our campaign to demand for COVID-19 Vaccines as a Global Common Good.In the light of the upcoming EU Council Meeting of European Heads of State, the TRIPS Council, WTO General Council and the African Union Meetings, we have teamed up with Avaaz to showcase a mandate for the vaccine. The following petition has already been signed by 900,000 people. We need your help to reach a million!&nbs...
9th Social Business Academia Conference 2020
The 9th Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC 2020) will be an interdisciplinary conference to be held in November 2020 where academic papers, practitioner cases, and concept notes on innovative ideas on any issues related to social business will be presented. Taking place as both a virtual and two socially distant and safety maintained limited guests only sessions in collaboration with the Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC)s in Colombia: Universidad ICESI (Cali) and Universidad Externado d...
YSBC Web Lecture Series - Lecture 05 : Why and How Corporates Get Involved in Social Business.
We would like to invite you join us for the next session of the YSBC Web Lecture Series: Lecture 5: Why and How Corporates get involved in Social Business which is coming up on October 19, 2020; Time: 14:00:00 GMT (Please Check your Time Here). In this session Mr. Leonhard Nima, Founder of Studio Nima will be in a virtual fireside chat with session speaker, Mr. Hans Reitz, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Grameen Creative Lab, talking on the important i...
YSBC Web Lecture Series - Lecture 04 : Technology for Fighting Poverty : Story of Telephone Ladies of Bangladesh
The next session of YSBC Web Lecture Series is on “Technology for Fighting Poverty: Story of Telephone Ladies of Bangladesh” with Moderator Dr. Faiz Shah, the Director of Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand and Speaker Mr. Md. Ashraful Hassan, Managing Director of Grameen Telecom. This exciting session will be on 5 October 2020 at 7.00 pm Dhaka GMT +6, featuring Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.To join us, please register at ...
Grameen America Inc. receives $25 million grant from MacKenzie Scott
Transformational Gift will Accelerate Financial Inclusion for Low-Income Minority Women EntrepreneursNew York, NY, July 28, 2020 —Grameen America Inc., the leading microfinance nonprofit organization focused on low-income minority women in the United States, today announced the receipt of a $25 million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. This transformational investment in Grameen America’s proven social capital model will accelerate the organization’s strategic initiati...
Grameen Yemen launches Microcredit and Social Business in Yemen Disbursing its First Microloan
Grameen Trust Press Release (07 July, 2020)The first Loan Disbursement Ceremony of GYF was held at Az Zuhrah branch, the first Microcredit Branch of Grameen Yemen in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen on July 5, 2020. Twelve women received micro loans for Sheep rearing, clothing, vegetables, transport and perfume businesses. Thirty six women already joined the borrowing groups. Grameen Yemen will be an all-women programme.Three fourth of the population of Yemen are under the poverty line...
Social Business Day 2020
Yunus Centre Press Release (25 June, 2020)Social Business Day will be observed globally this year as well, on June 26-28, mostly in the virtual space.The Live segment of the 10th Social Business Day 2020 will be held as the “Summer of Purpose” at Messe München, Munich, Germany, organized by Yunus Centre and Grameen Creative Lab. It will be a physical event in Munich hooked up with virtual events globally. It will bring change makers from politics, business, science, sports...