Amongst visionaries like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin and John D. Rockefeller, Dr. Muhammad Yunus has been distinguished as one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all times.
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The Greatest Enterpreneurs of All Time
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Greatest Enterpreneurs
Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, founded a banking system 30 years ago to lend small amounts of money to the rural poor in Bangladeshi villages. Most of the low-interest microloans go to women, who use them to start their own profit-making enterprises, mainly in agriculture, crafts, or services. |
Grameen Bank now has 2,422 branches, employs more than 20,000 people, and has loaned more than $6 billion since its founding. Borrowers own most of the equity in the bank. The company has been profitable in all but three years since it was founded. Read more about Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank |
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