Dr. Muhammad Yunus was selected as the 2012 recipient of the Transformational Leadership Award from the Foundation for Transformational Leadership. He was recognized for his achievements as a humanitarian and social entrepreneur, including founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering microfinance. An award ceremony and symposium on transformational leadership was held on April 27-28, 2012 in Chicago to honor Dr. Yunus and feature other thought leaders. Dr. Yunus started the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh to provide small loans to the poor, especially women, and has helped over 8 million rise out of poverty.
Muhammad Yunus pioneered microcredit and founded Grameen Bank to provide small loans to poor people, especially women in Bangladesh. This allowed millions to work their way out of poverty with dignity. For his work in microfinance and eradicating poverty, Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Beyond Grameen Bank, he has also created other organizations in Bangladesh addressing poverty issues. However, the Bangladeshi government recently took actions trying to undermine Grameen Bank and remove Yunus from its leadership.
Muhammad Yunus pioneered microcredit and founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to poor people without collateral. While teaching economics, he saw people dying from poverty and wanted to address this. He started a microcredit program in the 1970s and founded Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide small, low-interest loans to help the poor lift themselves out of poverty through work. Yunus emphasized empowering women and community support through programs like village phones. His work achieved significant success in reducing poverty and he received numerous honors including the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Bangladesh and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Tennessee. After returning to Bangladesh, he started various rural economic programs and small loan programs to encourage entrepreneurship among the poor. This approach, which he called "microcredit", has since spread to over 100 countries and helped over 8 billion borrowers. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in alleviating poverty.
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This document compares traditional and Islamic microfinance approaches to poverty alleviation. It discusses how Islamic microfinance is based on Islamic principles of avoiding interest and ensuring fairness. Key Islamic microfinance tools discussed are zakat, which requires charity for the poor, and waqf, where wealth is contributed for public benefit. The document argues that by sharing risks and ensuring equity, Islamic microfinance can more effectively help the poor compared to traditional interest-based microloans.
Global South Development Magazine October 2010 issueglobalsouth
This document provides information about Global South Development Magazine, a quarterly publication that covers developmental issues in the Global South. It lists the magazine's editors, regional correspondents, and special contributors. The contents section previews several articles in the upcoming issue, including ones on poverty reduction, justice in Sri Lanka, inequality in Bolivia, and floods in Pakistan.
The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville is a non-profit organization that promotes understanding of global issues through educational programs and events. It offers speaker presentations on topics like cybersecurity, the global economy, and the Middle East. The Council also runs educational outreach programs for students and teachers. It has over 1,000 members who support its mission through membership dues and sponsorships.
Thank you for your insightful letter. You raise several important points about technology and development in Africa. While iconic brands like Apple may resonate more in wealthy nations, providing practical and affordable options is crucial for closing digital divides in the developing world. I agree that companies must find culturally appropriate ways to make legitimate software accessible at low costs through mobile payments and other familiar methods. Overall this highlights how a one-size-fits-all approach will not work - development requires understanding local needs, capabilities and customs. Your perspective offers a thoughtful contribution to discussions on these issues.
Muhammad Yunus pioneered microcredit and founded Grameen Bank to provide small loans to poor people, especially women in Bangladesh. This allowed millions to work their way out of poverty with dignity. For his work in microfinance and eradicating poverty, Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Beyond Grameen Bank, he has also created other organizations in Bangladesh addressing poverty issues. However, the Bangladeshi government recently took actions trying to undermine Grameen Bank and remove Yunus from its leadership.
Muhammad Yunus pioneered microcredit and founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to poor people without collateral. While teaching economics, he saw people dying from poverty and wanted to address this. He started a microcredit program in the 1970s and founded Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide small, low-interest loans to help the poor lift themselves out of poverty through work. Yunus emphasized empowering women and community support through programs like village phones. His work achieved significant success in reducing poverty and he received numerous honors including the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Bangladesh and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Tennessee. After returning to Bangladesh, he started various rural economic programs and small loan programs to encourage entrepreneurship among the poor. This approach, which he called "microcredit", has since spread to over 100 countries and helped over 8 billion borrowers. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in alleviating poverty.
The Sunhak Peace Prize Introductory Brochure (English)
is downloadable from our website for free (www.sunhakpeaceprize.org).
Learn more about the Sunhak Peace Prize by looking at
the brochure directly from the file.
This document compares traditional and Islamic microfinance approaches to poverty alleviation. It discusses how Islamic microfinance is based on Islamic principles of avoiding interest and ensuring fairness. Key Islamic microfinance tools discussed are zakat, which requires charity for the poor, and waqf, where wealth is contributed for public benefit. The document argues that by sharing risks and ensuring equity, Islamic microfinance can more effectively help the poor compared to traditional interest-based microloans.
Global South Development Magazine October 2010 issueglobalsouth
This document provides information about Global South Development Magazine, a quarterly publication that covers developmental issues in the Global South. It lists the magazine's editors, regional correspondents, and special contributors. The contents section previews several articles in the upcoming issue, including ones on poverty reduction, justice in Sri Lanka, inequality in Bolivia, and floods in Pakistan.
The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville is a non-profit organization that promotes understanding of global issues through educational programs and events. It offers speaker presentations on topics like cybersecurity, the global economy, and the Middle East. The Council also runs educational outreach programs for students and teachers. It has over 1,000 members who support its mission through membership dues and sponsorships.
Thank you for your insightful letter. You raise several important points about technology and development in Africa. While iconic brands like Apple may resonate more in wealthy nations, providing practical and affordable options is crucial for closing digital divides in the developing world. I agree that companies must find culturally appropriate ways to make legitimate software accessible at low costs through mobile payments and other familiar methods. Overall this highlights how a one-size-fits-all approach will not work - development requires understanding local needs, capabilities and customs. Your perspective offers a thoughtful contribution to discussions on these issues.
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Most Bangladeshis work in low-income informal jobs, though agriculture makes up less than 20% of GDP, it employs 44% of workers. Rice farming dominates but yields are limited by farmers' lack of access to resources. Coastal areas also face soil salinity issues.
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist who founded Grameen Bank to provide microloans to the poor, pioneering microfinance. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for this work.
Microloans are small loans up to $50,000 for individuals and businesses. They help launch and grow small businesses to create jobs and strengthen local economies.
After receiving the Nobel Prize, Grameen Bank faced an unexpected
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Bangladesh and grew up in a village before moving to the city of Chittagong. In 1974 as an economics professor, he led students on a field trip where they learned a woman making bamboo stools had to borrow small amounts at extremely high interest rates. This inspired Yunus to develop microcredit and microfinance concepts providing small, affordable loans to poor entrepreneurs without collateral. Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for their microcredit efforts to alleviate poverty from the bottom up.
This article discusses how mobile phones can be used more effectively than the Internet for development work in the Global South, where Internet penetration is very low. It profiles Ken Banks, who advocates using basic mobile phone functions like SMS rather than focusing on Internet-reliant tools. His Frontline SMS platform allows NGOs to transmit data via basic phones anywhere a signal exists. Several examples are given of Frontline SMS being used for tasks like security alerts, healthcare monitoring, and disaster response in developing countries. While technology enthusiasts envision sophisticated mobile apps, this article argues that even very basic phone functions can still have significant development impacts when Internet is largely absent.
While the world may honour the rich—don't be surprised if God honours the poor.
"Listen to me, dear brothers: God has chosen poor people to be rich in faith, and the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs, for that is the gift God has promised to all those who love Him."
The document discusses global poverty and microloans as a solution. It notes that over 25,000 people die daily from poverty-related causes like hunger and disease. Microloans are small loans given to unemployed individuals and have a higher repayment rate than traditional loans. Examples are given of successful microloan programs like the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which has loaned to over 7 million people, 97% of whom are women, with a 98.5% repayment rate and has helped 50 million people rise out of acute poverty. The document advocates that microloans are not donations but are repaid with interest, benefiting both the lender and borrower.
The Grameen Bank was formed by Muhammad Yunus to provide banking services to the poor in rural Bangladesh and minimize poverty. It originated in 1976 as a research project led by Yunus at the University of Chittagong. In 1983, the Grameen Bank was authorized as an independent bank and removes the need for collateral by basing lending on mutual trust and accountability. Today, Grameen Bank has over 8 million borrowers, mostly women, across Bangladesh and has a repayment rate of over 97%. For their efforts in creating economic and social development through microcredit, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
This document discusses the vulnerabilities women face during disasters like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It finds that women were disproportionately impacted and faced human rights violations including lack of access to food, healthcare, and housing as well as increased domestic violence in shelters. It calls for relief and reconstruction efforts to adopt a gender perspective and meaningfully involve women in decision making. Specific concerns are raised about the situations faced by women in various affected countries and communities like Aceh, Indonesia.
The document introduces an audience targeting platform that enables marketers to optimize customer interactions across digital channels using a common data and reporting infrastructure. It has predictive models that identify customer attributes correlated with positive responses to optimize audience targeting in real-time. Case studies show how the platform helped companies like Delta Airlines personalize experiences and increase conversion rates.
The document summarizes x+1's Platform +1, a demand side platform that allows marketers to optimize digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels. Key features include audience targeting and segmentation tools, real-time bidding for digital ads, landing page optimization, tools for personalizing websites, and reporting on campaign performance and ROI. The platform's Predictive Optimization Engine uses customer data and algorithms to identify attributes correlated with positive responses and generate targeted audience profiles.
This document summarizes the market size and growth rates for several industries from 2010 to 2012. It notes that the market size values represent estimates for 2010 and the CAGR values represent estimated organic growth rates from 2009 to 2012. Specific industries mentioned include online travel booking, online video, mobile apps, online games, digital music, and ebooks. Projected market sizes and growth rates are provided for each industry.
The [x+1] platform is a self-service digital marketing hub that allows users to manage multiple campaigns from a single platform. With the [x+1] platform, marketers can control their inbound and outbound communications to make campaigns more relevant and successful. The platform integrates behavioral targeting segments, real-time data, third party data and search string data to target audiences using customizable profiles that can be saved and applied to future Media+1 or Site+1 campaigns.
Brad Terrell: Marketing in Real Time: Technology & Data Imperative[x+1]
The document discusses how marketing and data analysis have become intertwined due to digital technologies that generate large amounts of consumer data. It notes that extracting insights from exploding data volumes requires new technologies and methodologies. Additionally, real-time marketing allows companies to be more relevant to consumers by analyzing consumer data and preferences at speed and scale. The ability to analyze large datasets in real-time can provide competitive advantages for companies.
Part 2 of NexTargeting Webinar: Building Audience Insights[x+1]
This document summarizes a webinar on building audience insights from data in two parts. It outlines a framework for analyzing data, moving from actionable data points to findings to insights and actions. Key steps include taking stock of available data, applying a multivariate approach to bring context, identifying findings that explain performance variances, deriving insights from findings, and defining actions. An example analysis is provided that identified coastal states, urban areas, and middle-to-upper income and wealth homeowners as driving performance for a campaign.
This document describes a Direct Mail to Display program that allows direct marketers to target online display ads to households on their existing direct mail lists. The program works by anonymously matching a marketer's direct mail list to online users via third-party data and cookie matching. This allows the marketer to serve targeted ads to the same consumers they contact via direct mail. Benefits include deepening customer engagement, reducing costs by leveraging existing direct mail assets, and gaining insights into customer responses online. There is an initial $5,000 setup fee followed by a $5 per impression charge. Reporting provides campaign metrics and insights into responding audience characteristics.
Media+1's Brand Choice tool allows marketers to control the level of brand safety and adjacency for their ad campaigns. It analyzes sites where ads may be placed and rates them for appropriateness to protect brands' reputations. Marketers can utilize whitelists of approved sites or blacklists of blocked sites to ensure ads only appear in suitable environments.
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Most Bangladeshis work in low-income informal jobs, though agriculture makes up less than 20% of GDP, it employs 44% of workers. Rice farming dominates but yields are limited by farmers' lack of access to resources. Coastal areas also face soil salinity issues.
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist who founded Grameen Bank to provide microloans to the poor, pioneering microfinance. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for this work.
Microloans are small loans up to $50,000 for individuals and businesses. They help launch and grow small businesses to create jobs and strengthen local economies.
After receiving the Nobel Prize, Grameen Bank faced an unexpected
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Bangladesh and grew up in a village before moving to the city of Chittagong. In 1974 as an economics professor, he led students on a field trip where they learned a woman making bamboo stools had to borrow small amounts at extremely high interest rates. This inspired Yunus to develop microcredit and microfinance concepts providing small, affordable loans to poor entrepreneurs without collateral. Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for their microcredit efforts to alleviate poverty from the bottom up.
This article discusses how mobile phones can be used more effectively than the Internet for development work in the Global South, where Internet penetration is very low. It profiles Ken Banks, who advocates using basic mobile phone functions like SMS rather than focusing on Internet-reliant tools. His Frontline SMS platform allows NGOs to transmit data via basic phones anywhere a signal exists. Several examples are given of Frontline SMS being used for tasks like security alerts, healthcare monitoring, and disaster response in developing countries. While technology enthusiasts envision sophisticated mobile apps, this article argues that even very basic phone functions can still have significant development impacts when Internet is largely absent.
While the world may honour the rich—don't be surprised if God honours the poor.
"Listen to me, dear brothers: God has chosen poor people to be rich in faith, and the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs, for that is the gift God has promised to all those who love Him."
The document discusses global poverty and microloans as a solution. It notes that over 25,000 people die daily from poverty-related causes like hunger and disease. Microloans are small loans given to unemployed individuals and have a higher repayment rate than traditional loans. Examples are given of successful microloan programs like the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which has loaned to over 7 million people, 97% of whom are women, with a 98.5% repayment rate and has helped 50 million people rise out of acute poverty. The document advocates that microloans are not donations but are repaid with interest, benefiting both the lender and borrower.
The Grameen Bank was formed by Muhammad Yunus to provide banking services to the poor in rural Bangladesh and minimize poverty. It originated in 1976 as a research project led by Yunus at the University of Chittagong. In 1983, the Grameen Bank was authorized as an independent bank and removes the need for collateral by basing lending on mutual trust and accountability. Today, Grameen Bank has over 8 million borrowers, mostly women, across Bangladesh and has a repayment rate of over 97%. For their efforts in creating economic and social development through microcredit, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
This document discusses the vulnerabilities women face during disasters like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It finds that women were disproportionately impacted and faced human rights violations including lack of access to food, healthcare, and housing as well as increased domestic violence in shelters. It calls for relief and reconstruction efforts to adopt a gender perspective and meaningfully involve women in decision making. Specific concerns are raised about the situations faced by women in various affected countries and communities like Aceh, Indonesia.
The document introduces an audience targeting platform that enables marketers to optimize customer interactions across digital channels using a common data and reporting infrastructure. It has predictive models that identify customer attributes correlated with positive responses to optimize audience targeting in real-time. Case studies show how the platform helped companies like Delta Airlines personalize experiences and increase conversion rates.
The document summarizes x+1's Platform +1, a demand side platform that allows marketers to optimize digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels. Key features include audience targeting and segmentation tools, real-time bidding for digital ads, landing page optimization, tools for personalizing websites, and reporting on campaign performance and ROI. The platform's Predictive Optimization Engine uses customer data and algorithms to identify attributes correlated with positive responses and generate targeted audience profiles.
This document summarizes the market size and growth rates for several industries from 2010 to 2012. It notes that the market size values represent estimates for 2010 and the CAGR values represent estimated organic growth rates from 2009 to 2012. Specific industries mentioned include online travel booking, online video, mobile apps, online games, digital music, and ebooks. Projected market sizes and growth rates are provided for each industry.
The [x+1] platform is a self-service digital marketing hub that allows users to manage multiple campaigns from a single platform. With the [x+1] platform, marketers can control their inbound and outbound communications to make campaigns more relevant and successful. The platform integrates behavioral targeting segments, real-time data, third party data and search string data to target audiences using customizable profiles that can be saved and applied to future Media+1 or Site+1 campaigns.
Brad Terrell: Marketing in Real Time: Technology & Data Imperative[x+1]
The document discusses how marketing and data analysis have become intertwined due to digital technologies that generate large amounts of consumer data. It notes that extracting insights from exploding data volumes requires new technologies and methodologies. Additionally, real-time marketing allows companies to be more relevant to consumers by analyzing consumer data and preferences at speed and scale. The ability to analyze large datasets in real-time can provide competitive advantages for companies.
Part 2 of NexTargeting Webinar: Building Audience Insights[x+1]
This document summarizes a webinar on building audience insights from data in two parts. It outlines a framework for analyzing data, moving from actionable data points to findings to insights and actions. Key steps include taking stock of available data, applying a multivariate approach to bring context, identifying findings that explain performance variances, deriving insights from findings, and defining actions. An example analysis is provided that identified coastal states, urban areas, and middle-to-upper income and wealth homeowners as driving performance for a campaign.
This document describes a Direct Mail to Display program that allows direct marketers to target online display ads to households on their existing direct mail lists. The program works by anonymously matching a marketer's direct mail list to online users via third-party data and cookie matching. This allows the marketer to serve targeted ads to the same consumers they contact via direct mail. Benefits include deepening customer engagement, reducing costs by leveraging existing direct mail assets, and gaining insights into customer responses online. There is an initial $5,000 setup fee followed by a $5 per impression charge. Reporting provides campaign metrics and insights into responding audience characteristics.
Media+1's Brand Choice tool allows marketers to control the level of brand safety and adjacency for their ad campaigns. It analyzes sites where ads may be placed and rates them for appropriateness to protect brands' reputations. Marketers can utilize whitelists of approved sites or blacklists of blocked sites to ensure ads only appear in suitable environments.
The document discusses Open Data Bridge, a platform that allows for the integration of various customer, prospect, and third-party data sources. It centralizes demographic, interest, and other data that can be used to inform targeted online advertising campaigns and marketing strategies. The platform provides access to customer data, third-party data from partners, and additional data available through exchanges for identifying customer segments.
IRI collects point of sale and customer panel data for CPG companies. Their customer panel consists of 86,000 members across the USA who scan their purchases and provide demographic information. CPGconnect is a product that places tags on websites visited by the customer panelists. It matches cookies to link their online browsing to purchases, allowing CPG companies to measure the impact of online advertising on offline grocery sales. Interested parties should contact Mike Dillon at xplusone.com for more details on CPGconnect.
Eratóstenes fue un matemático griego que vivió en el siglo III a. C. que calculó el valor de Pi de forma aproximada midiendo la circunferencia y el diámetro de la Tierra. Calculó que Pi era aproximadamente 3,1416.
Everything is bigger in Texas, including its diversity of languages. English is the official language, but French and Spanish are also commonly spoken, especially among Hispanic and Mexican communities. Texas has a large economy diversified across industries like oil, textiles, and meat. The death penalty is supported by over 70% of Texans and has been used to convict over 400 people since 1976, usually through lethal injection. It can be applied for various crimes like murder of a public official or multiple murders.
Tim Schumacher gives a presentation to the staff of Living Waters Lutheran College about developing techno-resiliency. He encourages the staff to grow in resiliency, especially in learning new skills to prepare students for the future. The presentation uses multiple metaphors comparing resiliency to flexible structures like windmills, plants, and landscapes that adapt positively to changes or challenges rather than resisting them. The goal is to look forward with hope and find creative solutions rather than dwelling on past disappointments or lacking necessary resources.
This report analyzes data from over 4.5 million Twitter profiles to summarize statistics on user activity and growth on the platform. Some key findings include that over 50% of accounts have never tweeted, over 75% have not added a bio, and 9.06% of accounts are considered inactive. The number of new users per day has accelerated significantly from 5-10 thousand previously. While active users tweet almost daily, the majority of accounts show little engagement. The report also examines trends in locations, times of use, and how followers/following distributions follow a long tail pattern.
The document discusses the power and effectiveness of God's word as described in various Bible passages. It notes that God's word accomplishes its purposes and does not return void. Several verses affirm the truth and life-giving power of Jesus Christ and God's word. The document contrasts the law, which commands but is never fulfilled, with grace, which is received through faith. It encourages believing the promises of salvation found in God's word.
This presentation discusses HTML 5 WebSockets and how they enable full-duplex communication in web applications, moving past limitations of traditional HTTP. The speakers are founders of Kaazing, which provides an open source HTML 5 WebSocket gateway. The presentation covers challenges with existing "Comet" techniques, and how WebSockets and Server-Sent Events in HTML 5 allow any TCP-based backend service to be accessed through a browser. A demo shows using WebSockets to build a real-time XMPP chat client.
O documento apresenta o NetBeans, uma IDE open source multiplataforma e multi-linguagem. Resume as principais características do NetBeans, incluindo suporte a várias tecnologias como Java, PHP, Ruby e desenvolvimento web. Também discute a comunidade do NetBeans e como participar dela.
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist who founded the Grameen Bank to provide microloans to the poor without collateral. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this work. Nelson Mandela was South Africa's first black president who helped abolish apartheid. As president, he introduced policies to provide healthcare, education, housing and other services to the poor and disadvantaged. Both Yunus and Mandela worked tirelessly to fight poverty through providing access to financial resources, education, healthcare and other necessities.
Professor Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide microloans to poverty-stricken individuals in Bangladesh, allowing them to become self-employed entrepreneurs. Since its founding, Grameen Bank has issued over $6 billion in loans to over 7 million borrowers, lifting many out of poverty. For his work in microfinance and social business, Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Bangladeshi Nobel laureate. Grameen Bank pioneered the group lending model that is now replicated worldwide to empower those living in poverty.
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Muhammad Yunus pioneered microcredit and microfinance through Grameen Bank, providing small loans to poor people, especially women in Bangladesh. This empowered individuals and communities economically and socially. By addressing poverty, Yunus' work promotes peace between nations. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recognized Yunus and Grameen Bank for creating development from below and advancing democracy through microcredit. Their model has been replicated worldwide to alleviate poverty and reduce crime and violence resulting from economic hardship. Yunus believes access to credit is a basic human right and has advocated globally for microfinance as a tool for poverty reduction.
This document discusses poverty around the world and efforts to reduce it. It notes that over half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day, and 1 billion children live in poverty lacking adequate shelter or food. Professor Muhammad Yunus created microloans through Grameen Bank that have helped many escape poverty by starting small businesses. Grameen Bank loans have a 97% repayment rate and now operate in 58 countries. The document encourages efforts like donating to charities, volunteering, and educating others to help reduce global poverty.
This document defines poverty and provides statistics about its global prevalence. It states that poverty is a lack of resources to meet a minimum standard of living. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 per day and almost half live on less than $2.50, with the poorest 40% accounting for only 5% of global income. Poverty has serious effects like increased health problems, accidents, and stress for families. Actions to reduce poverty include organizations like End Poverty Now that support community-led initiatives, and Grameen Bank, a microfinance organization founded in Bangladesh by Muhammad Yunus that makes loans to the poor.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist who pioneered microcredit and founded the Grameen Bank in 1983. He grew up in a village in Bangladesh and received degrees from universities in Bangladesh and the United States. While working as a professor, he began lending small amounts of money to poor villagers which had an outsized impact on their lives and businesses. This led to the founding of Grameen Bank which provides small loans known as microcredit to rural poor in Bangladesh, especially women, to help them engage in entrepreneurship and lift themselves out of poverty. For his work in microfinance, Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. He saw that the poor people in Bangladesh could not access loans while the rich could. In response, he created Grameen Bank in 1976 to provide small loans known as "microloans" to the poor, allowing over 80 million poor people to borrow small amounts of money to start businesses. The success of the Grameen model has inspired similar programs in over 100 countries.
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and banker who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering microcredit and microfinance concepts. Some of his key accomplishments include establishing Grameen Bank in 1983, which provides small loans to millions of poor people in Bangladesh, especially women. He developed the concept of microcredit to provide credit to the poor and help them establish self-employment projects. Yunus' work has significantly reduced poverty levels in Bangladesh and inspired similar microcredit programs in other countries. He has received numerous honors for his contributions, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
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Muhammad Yunus pioneered the concepts of microcredit and microfinance by providing small loans to poor entrepreneurs who lacked collateral. He founded Grameen Bank in 1983 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his efforts in alleviating poverty. Chris Mould founded the Trussell Trust in 1997 to provide emergency food aid in the UK. Under his leadership, Trussell Trust has grown rapidly and now operates over 1,000 food bank centers, helping to address food poverty exacerbated by austerity measures. Both social entrepreneurs have made significant impacts through innovative approaches that empower the poor and address social issues.
The document summarizes the work of Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank in providing microloans to poverty-stricken individuals, especially women, in rural Bangladesh. It established the principle that providing credit access can help lift people out of poverty. Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. However, his efforts also faced challenges and political opposition from the Bangladeshi government. The document also discusses some of the causes and consequences of poverty as well as potential solutions like education, job creation, and debt relief.
This document provides an overview of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank. It begins with introductions of the group members giving the presentation. It then discusses what leadership is and provides background on Muhammad Yunus, including his early life, education, career founding Grameen Bank, and awards such as the Nobel Peace Prize. Grameen Bank is summarized as providing microloans to empower the rural poor in Bangladesh. The document concludes by stating that Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to create economic and social development through microcredit.
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The study tries to look at the impact of micro credit on the lives of the poor people. There are different views on micro credit as a powerful development tool regarding its success in developing the lives of the poor and some times these views are contradictory. However poverty is a global issue; it is a problem that even the wealthiest nation is facing. In this scenario country like Pakistan is facing a great challenge to alleviate or reduce poverty because poverty is becoming cause of many problems like suicides, illiteracy, unemployment, diseases like depression, stress etc. In order to control these diseases first we have to control poverty. At government level and also at international level many strategies are made every day to control poverty. But now Dr. Younis gave a formula of micro credit that successfully worked in Bangladesh and is now replicated all over the world and also in Pakistan so; the purpose of the study was to observe that what role micro credit plays in Pakistan in poverty alleviation.
The study was conducted in four urban slum areas of Rawal pindi and Islamabad that are Muslim Colony, Dhok Kala Khan, Tehmaspabad and Shakrial. Those people are targeted who have taken micro credit so that the comparison of living standard before and after use of micro credit can be made and hence it can be seen that, if there is any improvement in their living standard after using micro credit or not. The study was based on questionnaires which were distributed after translating it into Urdu so that respondents can easily understand it and fill it accordingly. Sample for this survey was 200 with 50 respondents per area. The dependent variable taken in this study is poverty reduction where as independent variable is micro credit and moderating variable is political environment.
Some of the factors that show poverty reduction are Training and education, clean water and hygienic environment, nutrition and adequate food, accommodation, income and savings.
Overall we can say that training and education, clean water and hygienic environment, nutrition and adequate food, accommodation, income and savings are important factors of poverty reduction. Because when a person has training and education he can improve his living standard, if a person has clean drinking water and adequate food he will be healthy and can earn in a better way for his family, if his accommodation is better and enough for family members and strong enough for natural disasters he can live in a better way. And obviously if his earning is good and enough for family he can also provide recreational activities to his children and can also afford uncertain expenses such as sudden guest etc and can also do savings for future, then all these things points towards a good life, a life with a good living standard and a life above poverty line. So; all above mentioned factors plays an important role in poverty reduction.
From data analysis it is concluded that the micro credit program is effective in giving un employed people employment such as taxi driver, shop keeper etc and to meet short term needs such as return debt taken from some one else, paying fee, operation, treatment of disease etc. Mostly borrowers of Muslim colony, Dhok Kala Khan, Shakrial and Tehmaspabad have used micro credit to purchase taxi, sewing machine and opening small shop and improving accommodation.
But micro credit system is not the perfect one; it is not a replacement for jobs that are not there and skills that do not exist. Important thing is to make them financially stable, to bring them out of the poverty line and to make them able to sustain their position and improve living condition instead of returning back to the poverty line. It can be done in this way that micro credit institutions can make contract with driving centers that can giving training to those people who don’t know driving on half rate, contracts with boutiques can be made, contracts wit
Poverty is defined as a lack of material possessions or money, with relative poverty determined by economic conditions within a community. For much of history, poverty was largely unavoidable due to insufficient production. Common causes of poverty include overpopulation, disease, lack of education, and addiction. Solutions involve microcredit programs, education funding, shelters for the needy, and philanthropic efforts by individuals like Mother Teresa and Muhammad Yunus, who developed microfinance, as well as organizations like the Salvation Army and Boys' Brigade, which provide aid to the poor.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of Grameen Bank who pioneered microcredit and microfinance. He established Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide small loans known as microcredit to poor individuals, especially women, to allow them to start small businesses. Over 30 years, microcredit has spread worldwide helping countless families through Grameen Bank's banking facilities without requiring collateral. Dr. Yunus received many honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, for his efforts to create economic and social development.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of Grameen Bank who pioneered microcredit and microfinance. He established Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide small loans known as microcredit to poor individuals, especially women, to allow them to start small businesses. Over 30 years, microcredit has spread worldwide helping countless families through Grameen Bank's banking facilities without requiring collateral. Dr. Yunus received many honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, for his efforts to create economic and social development.
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1. A Man with a
Vision for Humanity.
– Recipient of The Foundation’s 2012 Transformational Leadership Award
The Foundation for Transformational Leadership is proud to recognize
Dr. Muhammad Yunus as the 2012 recipient of the Transformational
Leadership Award, in honor of his achievements as a humanitarian 2012
and social entrepreneur. The Award ceremony will take place as part Transformational Leadership
of the 2012 Transformational Leadership Award & Symposium,
April 27-28, honoring Dr.Yunus and featuring Dr. Richard Boyatzis,
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in the area of Social and Emotional Intelligence for transformational
leadership.
Friday evening, April 27
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and the micro-
6:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
finance movement, is a powerful agent of economic independence
for the poorest of Bangladesh’s poor. In September 2010, the U.S. Transformational Leadership Award Dinner
House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill awarding
Dr. Muhammad Yunus the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest Saturday, April 28
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In 2006, Dr. Yunus received a Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2009,
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Freedom. Only six other individuals have received all three Westin River North
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Nelson Mandela, Norman Borlaug, Aung San Suu Kyi. Dr. Yunus has
over 40 honorary degrees and is one of the founding members of
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figures noted as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights
advocates, brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007.
2. A Champion of the Poor
“Poor people are Dr. Muhammad Yunus began his remarkable Bangladesh is widely recognized as one of the
journey as an economics professor in Bangla- countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Bonsai people. If
desh. He believed that what he taught in class Natural hazards resulting from increased
you take the seed rainfall, rising sea levels, and tropical cyclones
must be applicable to real world problems. This
of the tallest tree belief prompted him to take his students outside are expected to occur more frequently due
in the forest and of the university classroom and into nearby to climate change, each seriously affecting
villages. In 1976, during one such visit to one of agriculture, water and food security, human
put it in a flower health, and shelter. According to some studies,
the poorest village households, he discovered
pot, it grows only that loaning a small amount of money to a about a quarter of Bangladesh’s land mass will
as big as the pot person living in poverty could make a dispro- be lost by 2100 to rising sea levels, potentially
portionate amount of difference in the person’s creating 30-40 million climate refugees. As a
will let it. There’s result of the large amount of arsenic leaching
life. Armed with this insight, he started what
nothing wrong would become the Grameen Bank, the world’s into the country’s groundwater supply from
with the seed; first micro-finance institution, by lending $27 contaminated soil, experts estimate that
out of his own personal savings to 42 women 77 million Bangledashis have been exposed
simply we did not
in the village. Through his devoted efforts over to toxic arsenic levels from drinking water.
give it enough the last 36 years, the Grameen Bank has grown
space to grow.” and expanded its impact worldwide, helping its Sixty percent of Bangladesh’s population is
clients establish creditworthiness and financial below the age of 25. Additionally, the country
– Dr. Muhammad Yunus
self-sufficiency. Today, the Grameen Bank helps has a low life expectancy, with just five percent
over 8 million of the poor in Bangladesh, provid- of the population living past the age of 65. The
ing them an opportunity to climb out of poverty country also faces a low literacy rate: only 48%
and achieve financial independence. The impact of the population considered literate, which is
extends far beyond Bangladesh: one in every defined as barely able to read and write.
1000 people on the planet are being helped
by Dr. Yunus’ work on micro-finance and other
similar socially responsible businesses.
About Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a small country in Southeast Asia
bordered by India, Myanmar and the Bay of
Bengal. Although only the size of Iowa, it is home
to a population equivalent to half the population
of the US. It is the world’s 9th most densely
populated country with about 2,841 people per
square mile. It produces only about $1500 in
per capita GDP. As a small, poor, and densely
populated coastal country, it faces a myriad of
challenges – economic, environmental, social,
and educational.
3. Dr. Yunus “Transforming The Trend”
Though faced with many challenges, Bangla- Dr. Yunus received the 2006
desh remains hopeful and dedicated to change.
The GDP growth is currently 6.8%, and health Nobel Peace Prize, the
and education have increased as poverty has
decreased. Much of the economic advancement 2009 Presidential Medal
Bangladesh has enjoyed is the result of the
of Freedom and the U.S.
efforts of Grameen Social Enterprises, pioneered
by Dr. Yunus. Congressional Gold medal.
The flagship of Grameen Social Enterprises is the This puts him in the
Grameen Bank. Since its founding, the Bank has
expanded, nationally as well as internationally: company of such historic
it currently has approximately $9 Billion USD in
loans outstanding, with a 99% repayment rate. figures as Martin Luther
The number of customers and villages served
has doubled since 2003. Ninety-seven percent King Jr., Elie Wiesel, Mother
of these customers are women. Grameen Bank
is perhaps the single most transformative agent
Teresa, Nelson Mandela,
in empowering women in a 3rd world country
Norman Borlaug, and
like Bangladesh, altering the social power of
women and thus the social fabric of the nation Aung San Suu Kyi.
to a more harmonious and dignified way of
living. The model of the Grameen Bank is now
replicated across the world and serves as the
cornerstone for eradicating poverty globally via
the United Nations.
Dr. Yunus continued his efforts towards helping
Bangladesh by creating a myriad of social busi-
nesses— businesses with a social mission and
responsibility. The concept was born in Chicago
via Shorebank but blossomed in Bangladesh,
resulting in over 22 social enterprises. These
businesses are all from the Grameen lineage and
generate about $65 Billion USD – or roughly the
same revenue as Microsoft.
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