Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank
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Uploaded by socialedge on Feb 5, 2008
Global X has had many chats with Muhammad Yunus, but most of the time when the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was talking to other interesting people, such as Peter Gabriel, Pamela Hartigan, Vera Cordeiro, Rachel Payne, Sakena Yacoobi or Albina Ruiz.
Global X even met his daughter Monica Yunus, a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in New York who sang in French just for him (and a few thousand other people): a piece from Gounod's Romé et Juliette. Her French was very good, thought Global X at that time.
At last, a few weeks ago, Global X had a chance to sit down with the Professor to have a little chat. Just the two of them (and a movie crew).
Global X, for once, was mesmerized and actually became speechless. Listen to Professor Yunus as he tells the story of the first US$27 loan in a village of Bangladesh, the loan that launched the microfinance movement. Watch him as he recalls how surprised he was that it took so little money to free village women from modern-day slavery, humiliation and torture.
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Is it possible to translate the function and the success of the Grameen Bank to the inner cities of the United States?
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bangladesh needs you sir. you are a good man. excuse my language, but fuck the bangladeshi government.
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You do realize that those people not repaying their debt just means that they took money from the bank and never returned it? In other words those people are back where they were before using the bank but also consumed using the banks money. In the west there are much harsher punishments than just not being able to get another loan.
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Muhammad Yunus is a worthy nobel prize winner
a great idea his grameen bank I hope he will help a lot of people
best wishes from Germany to Bangladesch be proud of these amazing person
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@iqrammahmud I do agree with you. We are tired of our politicians, specially those who leads major parties. They are not only inefficient to run a country, they are dishonest / vindictive.I can say simply, they are not patriot. So need leader like Yunus. We are proud of you Yunus.
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i want him as the prime minister of Bangladesh.
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Make Professor Yunus the head of the World Bank!
KDANTEATER 3 years ago 30
Brilliant idea my friend.
geniussala 3 years ago 15