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 ...

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 ...

Microfinance aimed to foster prosperity but stoked hardship for those borrowers who took on debt they couldn’t afford.

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 ...

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 ...

Forget multibillion-dollar bailouts. Muhammad Yunus thinks the solution to the global financial crisis can be found in loans of much smaller size, backed with more prosaic assets: ducks, chickens, and ...