Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in microfinance in 2006, has been asked to step down as managing director of the Grameen Bank.

Muhammad Yunus has left the Grameen Bank Complex, where he had lived for 30 years, ... Khashru also posted some photos of the Nobel Peace Prize winner taken during his departure.

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 ...

Muhammad Yunus resigns from Grameen Bank Dr. Yunus, 70, said he was relinquishing his post to prevent undue disruption of the bank’s work.

Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of 14 children. He was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at ...

Muhammad Yunus seems to relish listing the ways the Grameen Bank is the opposite of a conventional bank. It lends predominantly to poor, rural women. It has no paperwork and no lawyers.