Muhammad Yunus may not be a big man, but he still manages to fill a room. He certainly did when I sat down with him to discuss microfinance: his take on the traditional banking system, his thoughts on ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, joins us for an extended interview on microfinance, the ...

Muhammad Yunus — Bangladeshi economist, Nobel laureate, father of microfinance — may or may not have been fired this week. This is the latest in a string of problems in the microfinance world. Here's ...

Recent revelations about the role of Nobel Prize winner Muhummad Yunus in the alleged misuse of $100 million by the Grameen Banks (and the cover-up of that misallocation) have begun to provoke overdue ...

Kai Ryssdal: There was a big shake-up today in the world of microfinance — the business of giving tiny loans, generally to poor people in developing countries. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus challenged the legality Thursday of a Bangladeshi government order dismissing him as the head of the microfinance bank he founded. Nine members of ...

Mohammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year for their work in microfinance. The NewsHour's economics correspondent Paul Solman speaks with Yunus about how ...

Microfinance has been one of the most talked-up anti-poverty programmes in our times. Bangladesh’s new interim leader Muhammad Yunus made his global reputation as ‘banker to the poor’, pioneering ...

Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize for providing credit to the destitute. Compelling evidence suggests that his philosophy of microfinance established the foundation for the $5 billion ...

Nobel Laureate and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus faced a new government fight Monday as the Cabinet ordered “legal action” against him for what it called “tax irregularities.” The Cabinet ...

The documentary film “Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus” opens with images of Bangladeshi poor at work: shirtless men stand ankle deep in rice paddies or squat in potato fields tilling the ...